The Crisis of Meaning: In Culture and Education

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS In developing this book, I received a great deal ofhelp from the people around me. First, I must thank my friend and colleague HenryA.Giroux for his encouragement and critical guidance. Significant credit is also due to Dennis Carlson, Peter McLaren, Richard Quantz,and Susan Reillyfor their engagement with the theoretical aspects of this book. Important advice on selected chapters came from Grant Kester, Nadine McGann, and members of the Socialist Review collective. Finally, and most importantly, I want to express my gratitude to Patricia Lester for her ongoing intellectual and moral support and to my mother, Jean Trend, for being a teacher to me in the finest sense of the term. VII This page intentionally left blank ...