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Stephen Downes

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Unfortunately, you have to register (free) and log in to read this review of Henry Giroux's "Public Spaces, Private Lives," but the review is worth the read, drawing clear dark lines between education and corporate culture. From the book: "We live at a time when the forces and advocates of neoliberalism not only undermine all attempts to revive the culture of politics as an ethical response to the demise of democratic public life, but also aggressively wage a war against the very possibility of creating non-commodified public spheres and forums that provide the conditions for critical education, link learning to social change, political agency to the defense of public goods..."

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