Education as Enforcement: The Militarization and Corporatization of SchoolsKenneth J. Saltman, David Gabbard This text locates a rising culture of militarism found not only in popular culture, civil society and US foreign policy but also in educational policy and practices. Considering the rise of school security apparatus, accountability and standards movements, privatization and commercialization, this book highlights the intersections between militarization and corporatization. This volume brings together scholars in education to explore and challenge the ways that the imperatives of corporate globalization are educating citizens through curriculum, policy and popular culture in the virtues of authoritarianism, while turning some schools into boardrooms and others into barracks and prisons. With the shadow of the No Child Left Behind Act descending, the text points to the need for citizens to become more actively involved in leading schools, teachers and children out of this educational Dark Age. |
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... role in helping students configure the boundaries between history and the present , incorporating a critical understanding of those events that are often left out of the rendering of contemporary considerations that define the roles ...
... role in helping students configure the boundaries between history and the present , incorporating a critical understanding of those events that are often left out of the rendering of contemporary considerations that define the roles ...
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... role in the world as a superpower should be debated rather than squelched in the name of a jingoistic patriotism . Two factors work against such a debate on any level . First , there are very few public spheres left that provide the ...
... role in the world as a superpower should be debated rather than squelched in the name of a jingoistic patriotism . Two factors work against such a debate on any level . First , there are very few public spheres left that provide the ...
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... role in how students view themselves , others , and the larger world . Unfortunately , the political , ethical , and social significance of the role that popular culture plays as the primary pedagogical medium for young people remains ...
... role in how students view themselves , others , and the larger world . Unfortunately , the political , ethical , and social significance of the role that popular culture plays as the primary pedagogical medium for young people remains ...
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... role to play in the struggle to link social justice and economic democracy with the equality of human rights , the right to education , health , research , art , and work . On the cultural front , teachers as public intellectu- als can ...
... role to play in the struggle to link social justice and economic democracy with the equality of human rights , the right to education , health , research , art , and work . On the cultural front , teachers as public intellectu- als can ...
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... role in fostering a social focus on discipline . In short , to speak of militarized schooling in the United States context it is inadequate to identify the ways that schools increasingly resemble the military and prisons . This phenome ...
... role in fostering a social focus on discipline . In short , to speak of militarized schooling in the United States context it is inadequate to identify the ways that schools increasingly resemble the military and prisons . This phenome ...
Contents
The Function of Schools Subtler and Cruder Methods of Control | 25 |
Rivers of Fire BPAmocos iMPACT on Education | 37 |
Education IS Enforcement The Centrality of Compulsory Schooling in Market Societies | 61 |
Cracking Down Chicago School Policy and the Regulation of Black and Latino Youth | 81 |
Facing Oppression Youth Voices from the Front | 103 |
Freedom for Some Discipline for Others The Structure of Inequity in Education | 127 |
Forceful Hegemony A Warning and a Solution from Indian Country | 153 |
The Proliferation of JROTC Educational Reform or Militarization | 163 |
Taking Command The Pathology of Identity and Agency in Predatory Culture | 213 |
Commentary on the Rhetoric of Reform A TwentyYear Retrospective | 223 |
Controlling Images The Power of HighStakes Testing | 241 |
Dick Lit Corporatism Militarism and the Detective Novel | 259 |
Virtuous War Simulation and the Militarization of Play | 279 |
We Were Soldiers The Rewriting of Memory and the Corporate Order | 289 |
The Politics of Compulsory Patriotism On the Educational Meanings of September 11 | 299 |
Critical Revolutionary Pedagogy at Ground Zero Renewing the Educational Left after September 11 | 311 |
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