Knowledge and Power in the Global Economy : Politics and the Rhetoric of School Reform

by Gabbard, David A.

• ISBN13: 9780805824346
• ISBN10: 0805824340
• Format: Paperback
• Publisher: LEA, Inc.

Summary

Advancing a three-fold political agenda, this volume: * illuminates how the meanings assigned to a whole vocabulary of words and phrases frequently used to discuss the role and reform of U.S. public schools reflect an essentially economic view of the world; * contends that education or educational reform conducted under an economized worldview will only intensify the effects of the colonial relations of political and economic domination that it breeds at home and abroad; and * offers a set of alternative concepts and meanings for reformulating the role of U.S. public schools and for considering the implications of such a reformulation more generally for the underlying premises of all human relationships and activities. Toward these ends, the authors, in Part I, critically examine many of the most commonly used terms within the rhetoric of educational reform since the early 1980s and before. Part II links today's economized worldview to curricular and instructional issues. These essays are especially important for comprehending how the organization of school curriculum privileges those disciplines deemed most central to market expansion--math and science--and how the political centrality of the economic sphere influences the nature of the knowledge presented in specific content areas. Given that language constrains as well as advances human thought, the twin tasks of de-economizingeducation and decolonizingsociety will require a vocabulary that transcends the familiar terminologies addressed in Parts I and II. The entries in Part III cultivate the beginnings of such a vocabulary as the authors elucidate innovative concepts which they view as central to the creation of truly alternative educational visions and practices.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Introduction	xiii
David A. Gabbard
I: TERMS OF DEBATE
Global Economy	3	(14)
Noam Chomsky
Crisis	17	(8)
Karen A. Barnhardt
Choice	25	(8)
Joel Spring
Reform	33	(10)
Thomas S. Popkewitz
Leadership	43	(10)
Wanda Pillow
Accountability	53	(10)
David A. Gabbard
Discipline	63	(6)
Felecia M. Briscoe
Classroom Management	69	(8)
William E. Doll
Learning	77	(10)
Eleanor Blair Hilty
Literacy	87	(8)
Colin Lankshear
Ideology	95	(8)
Michael A. Weinstein
Empowerment	103	(8)
H. Svi Shapiro
Inclusive Education	111	(10)
Linda Ware
Gifted Education	121	(10)
Mara Sapon-Shevin
Desegregation	131	(10)
Marvin J. Berlowitz
Ivan Watts
Race	141	(8)
Joyce E. King
Class	149	(12)
Steve Tozer
Gender	161	(12)
Kathleen Bennett de Marrais
II: TERMS OF POWER/KNOWLEDGE
Curriculum	173	(8)
Brent Davis
Dennis J. Sumara
Arts Education	181	(10)
Leila Villaverde
Language Arts Education	191	(12)
Alan A. Block
Bilingual Education	203	(8)
Robert E. Bahruth
Cultural Literacy	211	(10)
Donaldo Macedo
Multicultural Education	221	(6)
Etta R. Hollins
Cultural Studies	227	(10)
Crystal Bartolovich
Social Studies Education	237	(10)
E. Wayne Ross
Moral Education	247	(8)
David E. Purpel
Service Learning	255	(8)
George Perreault
Environmental Education	263	(8)
C. A. Bowers
Global Education	271	(8)
Robin Good
Madhu Suri Prakash
Science Education	279	(6)
Helen Parke
Charles R. Coble
Math Education	285	(6)
Maggie McBride
Kathryn Ross Wayne
Educational Computing	291	(6)
C. A. Bowers
Educational Technology	297	(6)
Eugene F. Provenzo
Technological Literacy	303	(12)
Mark D. Beatham
Media Literacy	315	(8)
Daniel Kmitta
Vocational Education	323	(12)
Joe L. Kincheloe
Adult and Continuing Education	335	(10)
Vivian Wilson Mott
III: TERMS OF RESISTANCE
Critical Pedagogy	345	(8)
Peter McLaren
Postcolonialism	353	(10)
Bernardo P. Gallegos
Critical Race Theory	363	(6)
Gloria Ladson Billings
Critical Feminist Pedagogy	369	(6)
Jeanne F. Brady
Biocentric Education	375	(6)
Robin Good
Madhu Suri Prakash
Situated Cognition	381	(8)
David Kirshner
James A. Whitson
Individualization	389	(4)
Leslie A. Sassone
Dialogue	393	(8)
Nicholas C. Burbules
Public Franchise	401	(6)
Jeffrey Williams
Author Index	407	(10)
Subject Index	417