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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... serve to " terrorize " those Amer- icans it claims to benefit . By launching a phony war [ Bush ] is managing to ... serving , the hollowness , of his appeals to patriotism . Listen carefully and you'll also hear what he's not saying ...
... serve to " terrorize " those Amer- icans it claims to benefit . By launching a phony war [ Bush ] is managing to ... serving , the hollowness , of his appeals to patriotism . Listen carefully and you'll also hear what he's not saying ...
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... serve as either a force for enlarg- ing democratic relations or when it shuts down such relations . Becoming media literate is largely meaningless unless students take up this form of literacy within the larger issue of what it means to ...
... serve as either a force for enlarg- ing democratic relations or when it shuts down such relations . Becoming media literate is largely meaningless unless students take up this form of literacy within the larger issue of what it means to ...
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... serves to remind us that collective problems deserve collective solu- tions , and that what is at risk is not only a generation of minority youth and adults now considered to be a threat to national security , but also the very promise ...
... serves to remind us that collective problems deserve collective solu- tions , and that what is at risk is not only a generation of minority youth and adults now considered to be a threat to national security , but also the very promise ...
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... serve corporate needs . Increas- ingly , as David Labaree has noted , this trend marked a shift toward defining the role of schools as preparing students for upward social mobility through economic assimilation . So , while on a social ...
... serve corporate needs . Increas- ingly , as David Labaree has noted , this trend marked a shift toward defining the role of schools as preparing students for upward social mobility through economic assimilation . So , while on a social ...
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... serving our nation is hardly a sentiment reserved for a conservative military establishment . Liberals and conservatives join in proclaiming the virtues of a military form of public service at a time when public spending goes ...
... serving our nation is hardly a sentiment reserved for a conservative military establishment . Liberals and conservatives join in proclaiming the virtues of a military form of public service at a time when public spending goes ...
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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