The Seduction of Common Sense

by Kumashiro, Kevin K.

• ISBN13: 9780807748695
• ISBN10: 0807748692
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-21
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

Timely, accessible, and thoroughly researched, The Seduction of Common Sense exposes the insidious nature of current educational reforms and offers promising directions for anti-oppressive change. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Kevin Kumashiro is an associate professor of policy studies at the University of Illinois-Chicago, College of Education, and the founding director of the Center for Anti-Oppressive Education.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword	p. ix
Foreword	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
"Common Sense" and Schooling	p. 3
"Right," "Left," and Public Education	p. 5
Attack on Public Education	p. 9
Organizational Landscape of the Right	p. 12
Current Initiatives to Undermine Public Education	p. 16
Contradictions and Strange Bedfellows	p. 29
The Power of Frames	p. 32
"Traditional Family" and Core Values	p. 32
"Free Enterprise" and Common Sense	p. 35
"Beacon of Goodness" and Distraction	p. 38
"Be Very Afraid"	p. 42
Appropriation of Frames About "Safety"	p. 49
The Trouble with Safety	p. 49
The Institutionalization of Bias	p. 53
The Christian Right and Youth	p. 57
Appropriations of Four Frames	p. 60
Failure to Reframe the "Achievement Gap"	p. 70
Gaps in Achievement	p. 70
The Demand to Assimilate	p. 74
Purposes Behind the "Model Minority"	p. 78
Framing Away Our Collective Responsibilities	p. 83
Frames for a Broader Left	p. 86
The Right to Be Different	p. 88
Oppression Hurts Everyone	p. 90
Multiple Human Rights	p. 94
References	p. 99
Index	p. 105
About the Author	p. 110
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