Global Impacts of the Western School Model: Corporatization, Alienation, Consumerism

ISBN-13: 9781138545632 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 148 str.

Joel Spring

Opis

Written in his signature clear, narrative style, Spring introduces the processes, institutions, and forces by which schooling has been refocused on educating for a corporatized and urban consumer culture. Chapters trace the impacts of such factors as religious debates, nationalism, school organization, instructional methods and school staff.

Spis treści

1. The Well-Schooled World: An Introduction  2. Religion and Global Schools: Secularism, Empathy and Compassion in a Corporatized Consumer World  3. Nationalism: Emotional Attachments to the Nation-State  4. Culture and Language  5. Alt-Right and Anti-Globalization: Schools, Global Migration and Humane Capitalism  6. Anti-Globalization: Antifa, Anarchism, Environmentalism and the Western School Model

O autorze

Joel Spring is Professor Emeritus at Queens College and the Graduate Center of The City University of New York, USA.