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Title Neoliberalizing educational reform : America's quest for profitable market-colonies and the undoing of public good / edited by Keith M. Sturges
Published Rotterdam : SensePublishers, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 344 pages)
Series Bold visions in educational research ; volume 45
Bold visions in educational research ; volume 45.
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD: Pointing the Way toward a More Socially Just World; NEOLIBERAL MULTICULTURALISM; NEOLIBERAL REFORM AND THE CAPITALIST STATE; COUNTERING THE LOGIC OF THE MARKET PLACE; STEM EDUCATION IN, THE HUMANITIES OUT; TOWARD A COHERENT POLITICAL VISION OF STRUGGLE; A COURAGEOUS CONTRIBUTION TO THE EDUCATIONAL DEBATE; REFERENCES; 1. EDUCATIONAL REFORM IN THE AGE OF NEOLIBERALISM: A Call for a Focused, Empirically-Supported, Collective Response; NEOLIBERALISM & EDUCATIONAL REFORM; IMPLEMENTS, PURPOSE, MOVEMENT; Demand for Social Change; A Vision for a Total Social Movement
Identity Production and a Collective MovementShades of Antagonism; Collectivism, Empiricism, and Participatory Democracy; RATIONALE FOR THE BOOK; VOLUME'S ORGANIZATION; NOTES; REFERENCES; SECTION 1: MANIFESTATIONS OF NEOLIBERAL IDEOLOGY IN EDUCATION POLICY; 2. FARMING THE POOR: Cultivating Profit at the Schoolhouse Door; INTRODUCTION; GETTING RICH ON THE BACKS OF THE POOR (CHILDREN); Farming the Poor with R & D; Divestment, Displacement, Replacement and Misplacement; Farming the Poor through Credentialism; BETTING ON THE POOR; NOTES; REFERENCES
3. (UN)MAKING THE NEOLIBERAL AGENDA IN PUBLIC EDUCATION: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Texas High School Social Studies Policy ProcessesINTRODUCTION; MAKING THE NEOLIBERAL AGENDA; The Culture Wars: Critical versus Neoliberal "Drill and Kill" Education; METHODOLOGY; Data Collection; Data Analysis; THE SBOE AND TEKS AS SITES OF IDEOLOGICAL CONFLICT; Narrowing Curriculum through State Board of Education Policy Processes; The TEKS as a Mechanism to Regulate, Deskill, and Disempower Texas Students; CONCLUSION; (Un)Making the Neoliberal Agenda; NOTES; REFERENCES
4. DOMINATING EDUCATIONAL POLICY: The Normative Harms of Military Recruiting under NCLBINTRODUCTION; SCOPE AND METHODOLOGY; DEMOCRACY, CHILDREN'S RIGHTS, AND BUREAUCRATIC DOMINATION; DELIBERATIVE FREEDOM, REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY, AND FIDUCIARY OBLIGATIONS; FORMAL PRACTICES OF BUREAUCRATIC DOMINATION; INFORMAL PRACTICES OF BUREAUCRATIC DOMINATION; The Data Collection Provision; The Equal Access Provision; TWO POLICY OPTIONS; Desirable; Achievable; CONCLUSION; NOTES; REFERENCES; SECTION 2: PROFITING FROM HIGHER EDUCATION & TEACHER EDUCATION
5. "BOOT CAMP" TEACHER CERTIFICATION AND NEOLIBERAL EDUCATION REFORMINTRODUCTION; RESEARCHER POSITIONALITY, THEORY & METHOD; BOOT CAMP TEACHER EDUCATION & NEOLIBERAL LOGIC; UNDERMINING CRITICAL MULTICULTURAL PEDAGOGY; REPRODUCING WHITE SUPREMACY; CONCLUSION; NOTE; REFERENCES; 6. FROM STUDENT TO STEWARD OF DEMOCRACY: Developing Teachers as Transformative Change Agents; INTRODUCTION; MINOR IN URBAN CIVIC EDUCATION; Undergraduate Critical Education; Critical Service-Learning as Transformative Education; Community of Practice; DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS; VIGNETTES; Chloe; Julianna; DISCUSSION
Summary "In this era, when 'commonsense' in educational discourse is so deeply framed by neoliberalism, we must better understand both the uniquely situated and the insidiously interconnected nature of so-called reforms. Thank you to Keith M. Sturges and colleagues for illuminating exactly this in their important and hard-hitting new book that reveals not merely how neoliberal reforms are designed to reinforce inequity, but also how the contradictions within provide ample opportunity to collectivize and act with hope."--Kevin Kumashiro, author of Bad Teacher!: How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture "In this important volume, editor Keith M. Sturges has taken the most useful discussions of neoliberalism and - with great precision, clarity and utility - seen them applied to the education arena. Over 13 chapters, leading education thinkers lay bare sets of realities that the broader public, school administrators, and policy makers would do well to fully understand. These range from the impact of neoliberal thinking upon chartering, parent involvement, teacher training, school climate, funding and more. I'll be using the chapters in this text in a variety of ways. They'll inform conversations with local, state and federal policy makers, and inform conversations with school leaders and district leaders. I'll also be assigning the text in my graduate seminar on education policy. Finally, the chapters will inform several lectures in my undergraduate class on 'The Promise and Peril of Public Education.' What a gem of a volume!"--Kevin Michael Foster, Executive Director, The Institute for Community, University and School Partnerships (ICUSP)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 4, 2015)
Subject Educational change -- Economic aspects -- United States
Neoliberalism -- United States
EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
Educational change -- Economic aspects
Neoliberalism
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
Author Sturges, Keith M., editor.
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