Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Beyond a Domesticating Education: A Dialogue Chapter 3 Democracy and Education Chapter 4 The Craft of "Historical Engineering" Chapter 5 Market Democracy in a Neo-Liberal Order: Doctrines and Reality Chapter 6 Unmasking a Pedagogy of Lies: A Debate with John Silber
Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the author of more than 80 books. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts. Donaldo Macedo is professor of English and Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is the author of many books, including Literacies of Power and the forthcoming Ideology Matters, coauthored with Paulo Freire.
Chomsky and Macedo provide a brilliant analysis of schooling that
draws upon a language of critique and possibility that reclaims the
notion of schooling as a public good and a democratic force. At a
time when teachers, students, and public life in general are under
assault by the juggernaut of commodification and capital
accumulation, it is crucial that educators, parents, youth, and
others be offered a language in which politics, power, justice, and
social change become central to any notion of educational reform.
Chomsky and Macedo's book fulfills this task with great courage and
penetrating wisdom. This is a book that should be read by everyone
interested in education and the crisis of democracy.
*Henry A. Giroux, McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the
Public Interest*
Judged in terms of power, range, novelty, and influence of his
thought, Noam Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual
alive today.
*The New York Times*
[Chomsky] continues to challenge our assumptions long after other
critics have gone to bed. He has become the foremost gadfly of our
national conscience.
*The New York Times*
[Chomsky has] a proud defensive independence, a good plain writer's
hatred of expert mystification, a doctrine of resistance which runs
against the melioristic and participatory current of most
contemporary intellectual life. . . . Such men are dangerous; the
lack of them is disasterous.
*New Statesman*
Chomsky's intellect continues to be provocative and liberating.
*Boston Review*
Excellent book.
*Times Higher Education*
The first book to systematically offer all of this prolific writer
and public intellectual's influential writings on education.
*Education Week*
Chomsky on MisEducation is a helpful addition to the literature on
critical, cultural, and educational analysis.
*Education Review*
The collected essays are the work of a critical and independent
mind and deserve a wide audience of educators and anyone concerned
with the survival of democracy.
*Mind, Culture, and Activity*
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