Education as Enforcement: The Militarization and Corporatization of Schools
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"This volume offers us a powerful look at what our current education system is doing to us instead of for us. If you have any doubt that education has become a business designed to first serve corporate interests, then political interests, and rarely individual and community interests, Education as Enforcement is a real education for you."
–Gloria Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"For those of us who have worried that the high-standards, high-stakes reform movement really seeks to mold children into standardized, docile, obedient widget makers taking orders from global corporations, Education as Enforcement provides the realization of our worst nightmare. The chapters range from the abstract and conceptual to concrete examples in the schools of Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia to descriptions of how video games train children as soldiers. About the most comforting words in the book are only that the totalitarian trend we are enduring is not inevitable."
–Gerald W. Bracey, George Mason University and High/Scope Educational Research Foundation
Book Description
With surveillance cameras, chainlink fences, surprise searches and metal detectors our public schools increasingly resemble the military and prisons. The first book to focus on the intersections of militarization, corporations and education, Education as Enforcement shows how schooling has become the means through which the expansion of global corporate power is enforced. Whether through accountability and standards, school security, or other discipline based reforms, militarized education in the U.S. needs to be understood in relation to the enforcement of corporate economic imperatives and to a sense of "law and order" that pervades our popular culture. Such an understanding will enable the conception of strategies for renewing a spirit of public civic engagement and democratic responsibility.
Education as Enforcement: The Militarization and Corporatization of Schools
Education as Enforcement: The Militarization and Corporatization of Schools,Kenneth J. Saltman,David A. Gabbard,RoutledgeFalmer,0415944899,Commercialism in schools,Corporatization,Education,Education and state,Educational sociology,Organizations & Institutions,Philosophy & Social Aspects,Popular Culture - General,Sociology,United States,Educational systems
Education as Enforcement: The Militarization and Corporatization of Schools
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