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In this ground-breaking book Joel Spring examines globalization and its worldwide effects on education. A central thesis is that industrial-consumerism is the dominant paradigm in the integration of education and economic planning in modern economic security states. Although there are local variations, the most striking feature is the sameness of educational systems. How did this happen? How was education globalized? Spring explains and analyzes this phenomenon and its consequences for human life and the future improvement of social and economic organizations.

In this timely, cogent analysis of trends and powerful forces shaping global educational policy today, Joel Spring focuses on how economization is making economic growth and increased productivity the main goals of schools, and the ways these goals are achieved-including measuring educational policies by their costs and economic benefits, shaping family life to ensure productive workers and high-achieving students, introducing entrepreneurship education into curricula from preschool through higher education, and increasing the involvement of economists in educational policy analysis. Close...

A middle-aged man, caught up in the doldrums of life, is awakened in mind, body, and spirit, thanks to the highjinks of a group of worm-like creatures who kidnap him and take him on the ride of his life. "In Orville And Erval Bend My Life: The Legends Of Verbal Cartoonery," the protagonist is forced by his peculiar pack of captors to hear them out as they deliver their wacky stories, vignettes, and poetry. The kidnappers have a dark conviviality that is at once confusing, threatening, and entertaining. Why would they need a captive audience for their wit and witticisms? They offer no...

In this popular text Joel Spring provocatively analyzes the ideas of traditional and non-traditional philosophies from Confucianism to human rights regarding the contribution of education to the creation of a democratic society. The goal is to explore how governments use education to control and manage their populations, and to examine forms of education that claim to free people from authoritarian control.

Wheels in the Head, a critically original work now in its third edition, is widely used as a text for courses on philosophical, social, political, and historical...