Education as Enforcement: The Militarization and Corporatization of SchoolsKenneth J. Saltman, David A. Gabbard The first volume to focus on the intersections of militarization, corporations, and education, Education as Enforcement exposed the many ways schooling has become the means through which the expansion of global corporate power are enforced. Since publication of the first edition, these trends have increased to disturbing levels as a result of the extensive militarization of civil society, the implosion of the neoconservative movement, and the financial meltdown that radically called into question the basic assumptions undergirding neoliberal ideology. An understanding of the enforcement of these corporate economic imperatives remains imperative to a critical discussion of related militarized trends in schools, whether through accountability and standards, school security, or other discipline based reforms. Education as Enforcement elaborates upon the central arguments of the first edition and updates readers on how recent events have reinforced their continued original relevance. In addition to substantive updates to several original chapters, this second edition includes a new foreword by Henry Giroux, a new introduction, and four new chapters that reveal the most contemporary expressions of the militarization and corporatization of education. New topics covered in this collection include zero-tolerance, foreign and second language instruction in the post-9/11 context, the rise of single-sex classrooms, and the intersection of the militarization and corporatization of schools under the Obama administration. |
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... democracy itself, it was once willing to assume responsibility for. Nor could she have imagined how a creeping militarization and pedagogy of punishment would eventually permeate all aspects of daily life, especially public education ...
... democracy, an issue that is implied or directly addressed in every chapter of Education as Enforcement. The shift to a society now governed through crime, marketdriven values, and the politics of disposability has radically transformed ...
... democratic society. As a central institution in the youth disposability industry, public schools now serve to discipline and warehouse youth, while they also put in place a circuit of policies and practices to make it easier for ...
... democracy under siege. War abroad takes a toll not only in the needless loss of lives but also diverts valuable ... democratic culture that young people can inhabit and learn in order to keep the promise of an aspiring democracy ...
... democracy survive when the school becomes one of the most antidemocratic institutions in society? I want to conclude by going back to Hannah ... democratic public sphere. Notes 1 Hannah Arendt, Between Past and Future (London: Penguin.
Contents
Kenneth J Saltman 1 | |
Subtler and Cruder Methods of Control | |
BPAmacos iMPACT on Education | |
The Centrality of Compulsory | |
Chicago School Policy and the Regulation | |
Youth Voices from the Front | |
From Abstraction and Militarization of Language Education | |
What SingleSex Classrooms Have to Do with | |
Preparing Children to Accept | |
PostColumbine Reflections on Youth Violence as | |
The Violence of Neoliberal Education or I | |
The Pathology of Identity and Agency | |
A TwentyYear | |
Education Economism and Crisis | |
From Social Exclusion to Shock in the | |
The Structure | |
A Warning and a Solution from Indian | |
Surveillance Spectacle and HighStakes | |
On the Educational | |
Contributor Biographies 301 | |