Rethinking Education as the Practice of Freedom: Paulo Freire and the Promise of Critical Pedagogy

"Few of even the so-called educators ask the question: What matters beyond the reading, writing, and numeracy that are presumably taught in the elementary and secondary grades? The old question of what a kid needs to become an informed ‘citizen’ capable of participating in making the large and small public decisions that affect the larger world as well as everyday life receives honorable mention but not serious consideration. These unasked questions are symptoms of a new regime of educational expectations that privileges job readiness above any other educational values." Stanley Aronowitz

By: Henry A. Giroux

Full Story: http://www.truthout.org/10309_Giroux_Freire

(Many thanks to Franke Wilmer, Representative HD 64
Speaker Pro Tempore, Montana House of Representatives for passing this along. Russ)