Hennessy is a retired teacher of high school History in Ontario, Canada and Professor of Education at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Over the past 35 years he has been a researcher and writer on themes of social and education reform in the United States and Canada.
Educating for Participatory Democracy: It's About Time!
In this captivating text, Peter H. Hennessy takes the reader on a reflective journey through 50 years of Canadian and United States' public education.... Hennessy's call for de-schooling is not just another blow to the place most of us call school; rather, it is a vision of neural networks expanding to create synapses that are strong, healthy, and much needed for long-lasting effects in creating and maintaining a democratic community.
Paula K. Greene, Associate Professor,
Northern Arizona University,
The Educational Forum, Vol. 71, Spring 2007,
Kappa Delta Pi, Indianapolis IN
Peter H Hennessy argues the case that public schooling in North America fails to cultivate in its students the independence of mind and moral autonomy needed for robust citizenship in a democracy.
From Student to Citizen is a call for radical reform of the principles and practices of public schooling.
