American Education and Corporations

The Free Market Goes to School
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-8153-2821-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 308 g

Reihe: Pedagogy and Popular Culture

This work argues that private businesses use public schools as worker training sites, resulting in a devalued teaching force, students as uncritical consumers, and schools as economic markets. Boyles analyzes school-business partnerships, revealing false philanthropy and the ulterior motives behind fast-food reading campaigns and supermarket sales for schools promotions. This important book criticizes the practice of privatization itself, revealing it to be a conservative gambit to secure class differences, and not a simple extension of free market business influence into the public sector.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boyles, Deron

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Boyles, Deron