Losing Heart: The Moral and Spiritual Miseducation of America's Children

by H. Svi Shapiro

In this book Svi Shapiro explores the ideological and attitudinal functions of schools, looking especially at what is called the 'hidden curriculum.' He offers both an analysis of the role of education in producing and maintaining attitudes and values that contribute to our competitive, socially unequal, instrumental, consumerist, and self-oriented culture and a radically different vision for what our schools should be about--a vision that focuses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805857222
• ISBN13: 9780805857221
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"