H. Svi Shapiro is Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Author or editor of a number of books on education and has also published more than 70 articles in national and international journals and writes on education matters for the national magazine, Tikkun. His professional interests include critical and liberatory pedagogies; the moral and spiritual dimensions of education; education and social policy as these relate to social justice, human rights and democracy; global social change and peace education; and qualitative forms of educational inquiry. He is a member of the advisory board of the Network of Spiritual Progressives, a member of the steering committee of Triangle Tikkun, has been actively engaged in interfaith efforts, and has a special interest in the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Preface

Contributors

1. Introduction: Education and Hope in Trouble Times

H. Svi Shapiro

2. Education and Schooling in the 21st Century: The Role of the Profession

David E. Purpel

3. Is There a Place for Education in Social Transformation?

Michael W. Apple

4. What Is to be Done? Toward a Rationale for Social Movement Building

Jean Anyon

5. Mechanics of Unfairness: How We Undercut Poor Children's Educational

Opportunity

Sue Books

6. The Moral and Spiritual Poverty of Educational 'Leadership'...and a Hope for the

Future

Ulrich C. Reitzug and Deborah L. West

7. Fear versus Possibility: Why We Need a New DEEL for Our Children's

Future

Steven Jay Gross and Joan Poliner Shapiro

8. Capitalism's Continuing Attempts to Dominate Civil Society, Culture, and

Schools: What Should Be Done?

Richard A. Brosio

9. Education After the Empire

Ron Miller

10. Education for a Partnership World: Building Cultures of Peace

Riane Eisler

11. Critical Thinking in Religious Education

Nel Noddings

12. The Cultivation of Children's Bodies Toward Intricate Thinking and Sensitive

Behavior

Don Hanlon Johnson

13. To Touch and Be Touched: The Missing Discourse of Bodies in Education

Mara Sapon-Shevin

14. Worlds of Change: A Vision for Global Aesthetics

Sherry B. Shapiro

15. Teaching Like Weasels

Hephzibah Roskelly

16. Transforming Status-Quo Stories: Shifting from 'Me' to 'We' Consciousness

AnaLouise Keating

17. Disposable Futures: Dirty Democracy and the Politics of Disposability

Henry A. Giroux

18. Unplaguing the Stomach: Curing the University of California Admission Policy with

An Ethic of Communal Care and Justice

Jenifer Crawford, Nana Gyamfi and Peter McLaren

19. No Child Left Thinking: Democracy At-Risk in American Schools and What We Need to Do About It

Joel Westheimer