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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... role for schools as they become more prisonlike, eagerly adapting to their role as an adjunct of the punishing state. As schools define themselves through the lens of crime and merge with the dictates of the penal system, they eliminate ...
... 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 phenomenon ...
... role of schools as preparing students for upward social mobility through economic assimilation. So, while on a social level, schools were suddenly thought to exist for the good of the national economy, that is the corporate controlled ...
... role that education should play in preparing citizens for democratic participation. The market metaphors redefine public schooling as a good or service that students and parents consume like toilet paper or soap. Despite a history of ...
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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 | |