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Our current state of schools has caused much dissention in the academic world. Everyone has a stake in the fight and of course the social education field is no different. We have an extensive laundry list of issues and concerns that are destroying public education. Teachers are deskilled, students are indoctrinated with isolated facts that allow for no actual analysis and schools are continually under attack by policies counterintuitive educational goals (Friere, 1993; Giroux, 2003). Unfortunately this negative perception of the academic world has since become the singular lens distorting my own personal view of what’s going on in the classrooms. I wind up expending a great deal of energy looking for what is missing.
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Jensen, T.W. (2011). Critical or Negative?. In: White, C. (eds) Journeys in Social Education. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-358-7_15
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