American Education and Corporations: The Free Market Goes to School

ISBN-13: 9780815328223 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 240 str.

Deron Boyles

Opis

Argues that private businesses are using public schools as worker training sites, resulting in the teaching force being devalued, students being molded into uncritical consumers, and schools being transformed into economic markets. Analyzes school-business partnerships and points out false philanth

Recenzje

"Deron Boyles has written a powerful indictment of corporate culture and its influence on American public schooling. American Education and Corporations is informative, instructive, and important for anyone who is concerned about the fate of public education in this country. The book is especially crucial in helping us understand the threat that corporate culture and its advocates pose in undermining the democratic importance of schooling as a public good. It should be read by everyone concerned about the fate of public schools and what to do to prevent them from becoming simply an extension of the corporations." -- Henry A. Giroux, Waterbury Chair Professor, Penn State University

Spis treści

Schools as Sites for Consumer Materialism * Corporate Culture and Schools * The Kroger Connection * Privatization and the Future of Public Schools * Critically Transitive Teachers. Index.

O autorze

Boyles, Deron