Education as Enforcement: The Militarization and Corporatization of SchoolsKenneth 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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... kids who brought firearms to schools—this was exacerbated by the highprofile school shootings in the mid1990s, the tragic shootings at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, and the more recent shootings at Virginia Tech. But as the ...
... kids out” of school.14 This becomes clear as cities such as Denver and Chicago, in their eagerness to appropriate and enforce zero tolerance policies in their districts, do less to create a safe environment for students than to simply ...
... Kids,” Centre Daily Times (Tuesday, January 4, 2000): 8. 15 Advancement Project, Education on Lockdown, 17. 16 Advancement Project, Education on Lockdown, 17–18. 17 Advancement Project, Education on Lockdown, 31. 18 Elora Mukherjee ...
... kids, lack of adequate policing, and violent video games while exonerating the institutions of power, particularly in the ways they configure economic, political, and social agency. How many black kids died in the United States that day ...
... kids confront in public schools? In reality, violence in schools has diminished in the past ten years even while people perceive there to be more violence in schools.33 Even more relevant, how many Serbian and ethnic Albanian kids were ...
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 | |