Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life: Democracy's Promise and Education's Challenge

Description: Examines the relationship between democracy and schooling.

Review Quotes:

"There are certainly few scholars who have had a greater impact in educational theory than Henry Giroux. His superb intellect is only matched by his prodigious scholarly capacity.
--Teachers College Record

Praise for the First Edition

"I would strongly recommend that [Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life] be read not only by teachers, those who teach teachers, and those who would be teachers, but by everyone concerned about education and the enhancement of democratic possibilities"
--Harvey J. Kaye, Educational Theory

"[In Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life] Giroux offers a thoughtful, theoretically consistent alternative to a technicist vision [of pedagogy]. Hope exists, he concludes, because we can imagine alternatives"
--Joe L. Kincheloe, Educational Studies