Joel Spring

Corporatism, Social Control, and Cultural Domination in Education: From the Radical Right to Globalization

The Selected Works of Joel Spring

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Starting with the 1972 publication of his seminal work, Education and the Rise of the Corporate State, Joel Spring has been documenting and analyzing the politics of knowledge and education. Throughout his work he has explored the attempts to use education to advance the economic and political interests of dominant groups. In this collection, Spring brings together 10 of his key writings, providing an overview not just of his own career but the larger contexts in which it is situated. In the Introduction he reviews the evolution and scope of his work and his earlier arguments and reflects on its central themes, which are reflected in the writings selected for this volume.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780415534352
• ISBN-10: 0415534356
• Artikelnr.: 36125718

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

1. Corporatism, Social Control, and Cultural Domination: From the Radical
Right to Globalization 2. The Corporate State and Schools. Education and
the Rise of the Corporate State: The Philosophy of the Corporate State 3.
Anarchist Critics of Public Schools. Anarchism and Education: A Dissenting
Tradition 4. Free Schools and Deschooling. Wheels in the Head: Free Space
and No Schools 5. Choctaw Tribal Roots. Choctaw and Family History: A
Basket of Apples 6. Alaskan Island. Alaskan Visions 7. The Politics of
Knowledge. The Republican Education Agenda for the Twenty-First Century:
The Culture Wars 8. Education and Globalization. Education and White Love:
The Foundation and Language of the Global Economy 9. Consumer Capitalism
and Schools. Horace Mann Meets the Wizard of Oz 10. New Goals for Global
Schools: Long Life and Happiness. Goals for a Global School System 11.
Global Educational Rights and Proposed Constitutional Amendment. A
Constitutional Provision for Educational Rights. Proposal for Amendment to
U.S. Constitution