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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... poor minority youth, the harsh realities of militarization produce a school culture in which critical pedagogies are replaced by penal pedagogies, while the appeal to safety becomes a euphemism if not a legitimation for lockdown ...
... poor minorities. Highintensity policing is no longer merely a tactic or policy, it has become a mode of governance and, as Education as Enforcement makes clear, such practices are saturated with ideological elements and a form of public ...
... poor minority youth, are viewed narrowly either as a threat or as perpetrators of violence. When not viewed as potential criminals, they are positioned as infantilized potential victims of crime (on the Internet, at school, and in other ...
... poor minorities in urban school systems, are not just being suspended or expelled from school but also have to bear the terrible burden of being ushered into the dark precincts of juvenile detention centers, adult courts, and prison ...
... poor white, brown, and black kids who are increasingly seen as disposable. They are children who represent the collateral damage of a testbased, privatization approach to “educational excellence.” In this vision of schooling, numerical ...
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 | |