Anthony G Picciano, Joel Spring

The Great American Education-Industrial Complex

Ideology, Technology, and Profit

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This critical analysis of the American educational-industrial complex-organizations, corporate entities, and political agents that seek to influence U.S. public education policy in accord with their own goals and objectives-posits that educational technology is the vehicle whereby it has grown and strengthened its position of influence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780415524131
• ISBN-10: 041552413X
• Artikelnr.: 35526301

Autorenporträt

Anthony G. Picciano is Professor and Executive Officer, Ph.D. Program in Urban Education, Graduate Center, and Professor, Hunter College, City University of New York. Joel Spring is Professor, Queens College and Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. Introduction to the Education-Industrial Complex and the Power
of Networks 2. The Flat World as Shaped by the Shadow Elite 3. Technology
in American Education 4. Corporate Influences: No Child Left Behind,
Privatization, and Commercialization 5. Profits, Products and Privatization
6. Foundations and Think Tanks: Policies and Ideas Supporting the
Educational-Industrial Complex 7. Media: News Media, Edutainment and the
Education-Industrial Complex 8. Conclusion: "A Nation at Risk" Redux About
the Authors Index