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America's Education Deficit and the War on Youth: Reform Beyond Electoral Politics
Author(s): Henry A. Giroux (Author)
- Publisher: Monthly Review Press,U.S.
- Publication Date: 1 April 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 1583673458
- ISBN-13: 9781583673454
Book Description
America’s latest war, according to renowned social critic Henry Giroux, is a war on youth. While this may seem counterintuitive in our youth-obsessed culture, Giroux lays bare the grim reality of how our educational, social, and economic institutions continually fail young people. Their systemic failure is the result of what Giroux identifies as “four fundamentalisms” market deregulation, patriotic and religious fervor, the instrumentalization of education, and the militarization of society. We see the consequences most plainly in the decaying education system: schools are increasingly designed to churn out drone-like future employees, imbued with authoritarian values, inured to violence, and destined to serve the market. And those are the lucky ones. Young people who don’t conform to cultural and economic discipline are left to navigate the neoliberal landscape on their own; if they are black or brown, they are likely to become ensnared by a harsh penal system.
Giroux sets his sights on the war on youth and takes it apart, examining how a lack of access to quality education, unemployment, the repression of dissent, a culture of violence, and the discipline of the market work together to shape the dismal experiences of so many young people. He urges critical educators to unite with students and workers in rebellion to form a new pedagogy, and to build a new, democratic society from the ground up. Here is a book you won’t soon forget, and a call that grows more urgent by the day.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Giroux has written a compelling critical discourse analyzing the present crisis of democracy. We can only hope it will become a manifesto, taken up by an informed and energized citizenryready to act.”–Carol Becker, Professor of the Arts and Dean of the School of the Arts, Columbia University
“This is classic Giroux in the sense that it contains all the passion, empathy, and righteous anger that we have come to associate with Henry Giroux. Impressive in his unflagging commitment to a public pedagogy that creates, sustains, and expands our discussions of what it means to be a citizen and member of a world community. Among so many strengths, I would single out this books attention to the youth of the worldnot as & resources to be & developed and & trained, but as our best hope for a just world.”–David Palumbo-Liu, author, The Deliverance of Others: Reading Literature in a Global Age
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