Knowledge & Power in the Global Economy: The Effects of School Reform in a Neoliberal/Neoconservative Age

by Gabbard; David

• ISBN13: 9780805859393
• ISBN10: 080585939X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2007-10-04
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The second edition of Knowledge and Power in the Global Economyexamines how neoliberal and neoconservative policies are working in tandem to privatize and commercialize public schools. It looks at how these policies and the agendas behind them have impacted the internal dynamics of school management, teaching, and learning, as well as how they have transformed the external dynamics of education from a public good or service offered to serve public interests to a private enterprise primarily serving private interests. In addition to information, critique, and analysis, multiple perspectives are provided that readers can draw upon to formulate an alternative vision of education as a crucial element of social change along democratic and egalitarian lines. The first edition of this volume provided a critical encyclopedic approach to the rhetoric of educational reform as it developed from the 1980s through the 1990scritiquing its vocabulary, elaborating the multiplicity of ways that the logic of neoliberalism and the emerging patterns of high stakes testing and accountability were impacting the curriculum, and introducing ideas associated with alternative and liberatory educational projects. Since its publication in 2000, policy developments, such as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 in the U.S. and others in the U.K. and other parts of the world, have nationalized and intensified these patterns, deepening the logic and extent of neoliberalism's hold over educational reforms. At the same time, it is impossible to understand the current crises in education solely in terms of neoliberalism; the impact of neoconservatism must also be considered. Hence this second edition has a new subtitle: The Effects of School Reform in a Neoliberal/ Neoconservative Age. This edition is structured around five themes: *Political and Social Foundations; *Anti-Educational Foundations: The Set-Up; *Anti-Educational Foundations: The Trap; *Classroom Consequences; and *Democracy's Path. This volume will particularly interest scholars and professionals across the fields of educational foundations, curriculum theory, and educational policy, and is well suited as a text for courses in these areas.

Table of Contents

Political and Social Foundations
Democracy	p. 5
Socialism	p. 13
Liberalism	p. 23
Neoliberalism	p. 35
Conservatism	p. 45
Neoconservatism	p. 59
Fascism	p. 79
Global Economy	p. 91
Class	p. 101
Gender	p. 113
Race	p. 121
Sexuality	p. 129
Antieducational Foundations: The Setup
Propaganda	p. 141
High Standards	p. 151
Assessment	p. 161
Evidence-Based Education	p. 169
Educational Research	p. 179
Accountability	p. 191
Discipline	p. 199
Masculinization	p. 209
Militarization	p. 221
Antieducational Foundations: The Trap
Think Tanks, Foundations, and Institutes	p. 229
The Anti-School Movement	p. 239
Choice	p. 251
Charter Schools	p. 259
Privatization	p. 269
The Corporate University	p. 283
Schooling	p. 295
Classroom Consequences
Teaching	p. 307
Reading	p. 317
Bilingual Education	p. 327
Language Arts Education	p. 339
Literacy	p. 347
Arts Education	p. 357
Social Studies Education	p. 367
Math Education	p. 377
Science Education	p. 389
Educational Technology	p. 403
Abstinence-Only Sex Education	p. 413
Character Education	p. 423
Democracy's Path
Inclusive Democracy	p. 435
Inclusive Schooling	p. 449
Critical Pedagogy	p. 463
Socialist Pedagogy	p. 477
Critical Feminist Pedagogy	p. 485
Indigenous Pedagogy	p. 493
Ecological Literacy	p. 501
Technological Literacy	p. 511
Quantitative Form and Arguments	p. 525
Deschooling	p. 543
Index	p. 553
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