附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
I: Beginning the journey: thinking about our thinking -- 1. Starting points: assumptions and alternatives -- Why theory and philosophy matter: from the abstract to the practical -- Developing a personal stance -- Historical possibilities: traditional goals -- An alternative agenda: critical goals -- The why and how of praxis -- 2. Understanding our own thinking: developing critical consciousness -- Issues of race -- Issues of gender and sexual orientation -- The complexity of cultural conditioning -- 3. Expanding our thinking: Learning about "other people's children" -- Who are America's schoolchildren? -- Poverty, race, and schoolchildren -- Other people's children: educational history and legacies -- Other people's children: current realities -- II: Considering destinations: truth, consequences, and the critical vision -- 4. In the interest of everyone but kids: the politics of contemporary educational reform -- Themes in national political rhetoric -- Theme 1: Education as workforce preparation -- Theme 2: Education is failing -- Rhetoric and realities -- Why produce a "manufactured crisis"? -- Corporations on the crisis bandwagon -- Corporation in the schoolhouse -- Staging for twenty-first-century reforms -- 5. Consequences of contemporary educational reform: winners and losers -- Standards and high-stakes testing -- The winners -- The losers -- Moves toward privatization -- The winners -- the losers -- 6. Critical alternatives for schools and teachers -- Critical alternatives: redefining democracy and democratic goals -- Critical alternatives: schooling for participative citizenship -- Education as critical inquiry for social change -- Education in service to the many -- Critical alternatives: teachers pursuing social justice -- Teachers who understand social power arrangements -- Teachers who respect the other -- Teachers as public intellectuals -- Teachers as risk-takers -- Parting thoughts -- Information and allies for the critical educator.
