Howard Zinn on Democratic Education (Series in Critical Narrative) (Series in Critical Narratives)

by Howard Zinn and Donaldo Macedo

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Perhaps no other historian has had a more profound and revolutionary impact on American education than Howard Zinn. This is the first book devoted to his views on education and its role in a democratic society. Howard Zinn on Democratic Education describes what is missing from school textbooks and in classrooms-and how we move beyond these deficiencies to improve student education. Critical skills of citizenship are insufficiently developed in schools, according to Zinn. Textbooks and curricula must be changed to transcend the recitation of received wisdom too common today in schools. In these respects, recent Bush Administration and educational...Read more
  • ISBN10 1612054137
  • ISBN13 9781612054131
  • Publish Date 1 January 2013 (first published 1 December 2004)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Paradigm Publishers
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 224
  • Language English