Schools or Markets?: Commercialism, Privatization, and School-business Partnerships

by Boyles, Deron R.; Stultz, Larry; Trammell, Leslee; Miller, Gary

• ISBN13: 9780805852035
• ISBN10: 0805852034
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-11
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

This book challenges readers to consider the consequences of commercialism and business influences on and in schools. Critical essays examine the central theme of commercialism via a unique multiplicity of real-world examples. Schools or Markets?

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Alex Molnar
Preface	ix
1 The Privatization of Food Services in Schools: Undermining Children's Health, Social Equity, and Democratic Education	1	(30)
Carolyn VanderSchee
2 Measuring and Fixing, Filling and Drilling: The ExxonMobil Agenda for Education	31	(16)
Leslee Trammell
3 Priming the Pump: "Educating" for Market Democracy	47	(12)
Randy Hewitt
4 Jesus in the Temple: What Should Administrators Do When the Marketplace Comes to School?	59	(10)
Donna Adair Breault
5 Teachers, Unions, and Commercialization	69	(14)
Beth M. Weiss
6 Children as Collateral Damage: The Innocents of Education's War for Reform	83	(36)
Judy Block
7 Private Knowledge, Public Domain: The Politics of Intellectual Property in Higher Education	119	(30)
Benjamin Baez
8 The Two-Way Street of Higher Education Commodification	149	(22)
Gary A. Miller
9 Egocentrism in Professional Arts Education: Toward a Discipline-Based View of Work and World	171	(24)
Larry Stultz
10 Controlling the Power Over Knowledge: Selling the Crisis for Self-Serving Gains	195	(22)
Lynn Wilson
11 The Exploiting Business: School-Business Partnerships, Commercialization, and Students as Critically Transitive Citizens	217	(24)
Deron R. Boyles
Contributor Information	241	(2)
Author Index	243	(4)
Subject Index	247