Education and Hope in Troubled Times

H. Svi Shapiro is Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Author or editor of a number of books on education and has also published more than 70 articles in national and international journals and writes on education matters for the national magazine, Tikkun. His professional interests include critical and liberatory pedagogies; the moral and spiritual dimensions of education; education and social policy as these relate to social justice, human rights and democracy; global social change and peace education; and qualitative forms of educational inquiry. He is a member of the advisory board of the Network of Spiritual Progressives, a member of the steering committee of Triangle Tikkun, has been actively engaged in interfaith efforts, and has a special interest in the Israel-Palestine conflict.

• PrefaceContributors1. Introduction: Education and Hope in Trouble Times H. Svi Shapiro 2. Education and Schooling in the 21st Century: The Role of the Profession David E. Purpel3. Is There a Place for Education in Social Transformation? Michael W. Apple 4. What Is to be Done? Toward a Rationale for Social Movement Building Jean Anyon5. Mechanics of Unfairness: How We Undercut Poor Children’s Educational Opportunity Sue Books6. The Moral and Spiritual Poverty of Educational ‘Leadership’…and a Hope for the FutureUlrich C. Reitzug and Deborah L. West 7. Fear versus Possibility: Why We Need a New DEEL for Our Children’s FutureSteven Jay Gross and Joan Poliner Shapiro 8. Capitalism’s Continuing Attempts to Dominate Civil Society, Culture, and Schools: What Should Be Done?Richard A. Brosio 9. Education After the Empire Ron Miller 10. Education for a Partnership World: Building Cultures of Peace Riane Eisler 11. Critical Thinking in Religious EducationNel Noddings 12. The Cultivation of Children’s Bodies Toward Intricate Thinking and SensitiveBehaviorDon Hanlon Johnson 13. To Touch and Be Touched: The Missing Discourse of Bodies in EducationMara Sapon-Shevin 14. Worlds of Change: A Vision for Global Aesthetics Sherry B. Shapiro 15. Teaching Like Weasels Hephzibah Roskelly 16. Transforming Status-Quo Stories: Shifting from ‘Me’ to ‘We’ ConsciousnessAnaLouise Keating 17. Disposable Futures: Dirty Democracy and the Politics of DisposabilityHenry A. Giroux 18. Unplaguing the Stomach: Curing the University of California Admission Policy with An Ethic of Communal Care and JusticeJenifer Crawford, Nana Gyamfi and Peter McLaren 19. No Child Left Thinking: Democracy At-Risk in American Schools and What We Need to Do About It Joel Westheimer

"Progressive educators have always been better at critique than at possibility. This book promises not to ignore critique, but to favor possibility. It is most rare and greatly welcomed."--Richard Quantz, Miami University"The editor argues that in a material world, depicted by consumerism, spiritual nihilism and conspicuous consumption, there is need to offer a new vision and direction in education that would promote a more harmonious, holistic values-oriented schooling that transforms persons into moral beings, who care for others…. In terms of innovative ideas and approaches to pedagogy and theorizing about schooling, this volume is at the top of pedagogical discourses and thinking."--Joseph Zajda, Australian Catholic University (Melbourne Campus)