Rightist Multiculturalism: Core Lessons on Neoconservative School Reform

by Buras; Kristen L.

• ISBN13: 9780415962643
• ISBN10: 0415962641
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-21
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This provides a critical examination of the Core Knowledge movement and explores the history and cultural politics underlying neoconservative initiatives in education. Buras attempts to reclaim multiculturalism as a radically transformative project.

Author Biography

Kristen L. Buras is Assistant Professor of Multicultural Urban Education in the Division of Educational Studies at Emory University.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Introduction	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction: Rightist Multiculturalism as the New Hegemony	p. 1
Historicizing Core Knowledge: Neoconservatism, Cultural Deficiency and the Civil Rights Frontier	p. 13
Questioning Core Assumptions: A Critical Reading of E. D. Hirsch's Educational Vision	p. 37
Tracing the Core Knowledge Movement	p. 65
The Disuniting of America's History: Core Knowledge and the National Past	p. 97
Core Lessons on the Politics of Neoconservative School Reform	p. 135
Appendices
Methodologies: Getting to the Core of the Matter	p. 169
Correspondence on the Politics of Antonio Gramsci from Harvard Educational Review	p. 181
Notes	p. 187
References	p. 191
Index	p. 213
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