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New Book
by Susan Ohanian
Knowledge and Power in the Global Economy: The Effects of School Reform in a Neoliberal/Neoconservative Age
OK, I have a (very) small vested interest in this book, meaning I contributed an essay and thereby received one free copy. This does not amount to minimum wage, even if I'd received a hardbound copy (which I didn't).
My copy arrived today so I have barely started to read the book, but I will say this: The array of contributors IS rather stunning and, I think, important.
One thing I like about the book is that it examines how neoliberal and neoconservatives policies are working in tandem. A failing of our protest is that as we struggle valiantly to put out fires in our immediate vicinities, we (mostly) failed to examine WHY all this is happening. I think this book helps explain that.
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Here are the section titles of Knowledge and Power in the Global Economy: The Effects of School Reform in a Neoliberal/Neoconservative Age:
I Political and Social Foundations
II Antieducational Foundations: The Setup
III Antieducational Foundations: The Trap
IV Classroom Consequences
IV Democracy's Path
Knowledge and Power in the Global Economy: The Effects of School Reform in a Neoliberal/Neoconservative Age
by David A. Gabbard (Editor)
Lawrence Erlbaum; 2 edition (October 2007)
608 pages
hardbound : $110.00 (gasp)
Paperback (2) $39.95
Book Description
The second edition of Knowledge and Power in the Global Economy examines 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 1990s: critiquing 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 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.
Review:
This is an important and necessary book. The list of contributing authors includes a stunning array of insightful and widely published and referenced critical scholars and educators. [It] offers readers an opportunity to better understand how contemporary educational policies fit within the broader aims of neoliberal and neoconservative agendas.... Differentially skilled and socially/politically/culturally neutered and compliant human capital is now the production focus of neoliberalized education systems and institutions, hand in glove with and enforced by an neoconservative ideology and state.... But there is resistance.... There are people who want a more human and more equal society, a society where students and citizens and workers are not sacrificed on the altar of profit before all else.... This book feeds that resistance!
--Dave Hill /B BR I University College Northampton /I /P
— Susan Ohanian
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2007-10-27
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