Education as Enforcement locates a rising culture of militarism found not only in popular culture, civil society and US foreign policy but also in educational policy and practices. Considering the rise of school security apparatus, accountability and standards movements, privatization and commercialization, this book highlights the intersections between militarization and corporatization. It brings together noted scholars in education to explore and challenge the ways that the imperatives of corporate globalization are educating citizens through curriculum, policy and popular culture in the virtues of authoritarianism while turning some schools into boardrooms and others into barracks and prisons.
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This volume offers us a powerful look at what our current education system is doing to us instead of for us. If you have any doubt that education has become a business designed to first serve corporate interests, then political interests, and rarely individual and community interests, Education as Enforcement is a real education for you.
–Gloria Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin, Madison
For those of us who have worried that the high-standards, high-stakes reform movement really seeks to mold children into standardized, docile, obedient widget makers taking orders from global corporations, Education as Enforcement provides the realization of our worst nightmare. The chapters range from the abstract and conceptual to concrete examples in the schools of Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia to descriptions of how video games train children as soldiers. About the most comforting words in the book are only that the totalitarian trend we are enduring is not inevitable.
–Gerald W. Bracey, George Mason University and High/Scope Educational Research Foundation
–Gloria Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin, Madison
For those of us who have worried that the high-standards, high-stakes reform movement really seeks to mold children into standardized, docile, obedient widget makers taking orders from global corporations, Education as Enforcement provides the realization of our worst nightmare. The chapters range from the abstract and conceptual to concrete examples in the schools of Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia to descriptions of how video games train children as soldiers. About the most comforting words in the book are only that the totalitarian trend we are enduring is not inevitable.
–Gerald W. Bracey, George Mason University and High/Scope Educational Research Foundation
About the Author
Kenneth J. Saltman is Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Studies at DePaul University. David A. Gabbard is Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at East Carolina University's School of Education.
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This review is from: Education as Enforcement: The Militarization and Corporatization of Schools (Paperback)
Until we all realize that the schools have largely become vehicles for replicating the status-quo, for producing people who will follow orders and buy products, and maybe even increase prison populations, we will continue our cultural spiral downhill. This book and its very credible authors explain why we should be concerned.
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Well, the main point I think is that the entire school curriculum, from kindergarten through graduate school, will be tolerated only so long as it continues to perform its institutional role. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
domestic militarism, virtuous war, corporate privatization, predatory culture, probation schools, secular salvation, transition high schools, emergency time Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, African American, Gulf War, Der Derian, Paulo Freire, San Francisco, Tunnel Vision, American Dream, Noam Chomsky, Los Angeles, President Bush, Middle East, Pauline Lipman, Corporatizing Public, Lockdown America, Tel Aviv, University of Minnesota Press, Wall Street, Wayne Ross, American Indian, Amnesty International, Cutting Edge, Guy Debord, Ivan Illich New!
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Well, the main point I think is that the entire school curriculum, from kindergarten through graduate school, will be tolerated only so long as it continues to perform its institutional role. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
domestic militarism, virtuous war, corporate privatization, predatory culture, probation schools, secular salvation, transition high schools, emergency time Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, African American, Gulf War, Der Derian, Paulo Freire, San Francisco, Tunnel Vision, American Dream, Noam Chomsky, Los Angeles, President Bush, Middle East, Pauline Lipman, Corporatizing Public, Lockdown America, Tel Aviv, University of Minnesota Press, Wall Street, Wayne Ross, American Indian, Amnesty International, Cutting Edge, Guy Debord, Ivan Illich New!
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- Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 30th Anniversary Edition by Paulo Freire on page 59, page 100, and page 256
- Cultural Politics and Education (John Dewey Lecture) by Michael W. Apple on page 149, page 308, and page 309
- Why We Fight: Moral Clarity and the War on Terrorism by William J. Bennett on page 321, and page 326
- The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization by Thomas L. Friedman in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- High Stakes Education: Inequality, Globalization, and Urban School Reform (Critical Social Thought) by Pauline Lipman on page 81, and page 98
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- Selling Us the Fortress: The Promotion of Techno-Security Equipment for Schools by Ronnie Casella on 5 pages
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Defending Public Schools [Four Volumes]
: Defending Public Schools: Volume I, Education Under the Security State (Praeger Perspectives) by p> in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3) - Defending Public Schools [Four Volumes] [4 volumes] (Praeger Perspectives) by E. Wayne Ross on page 243, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Managing to Be Different: Educational Leadership as Critical Practice by Ron Scapp on page 39, and Back Matter
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Defending Public Schools [Four Volumes]
: Defending Public Schools: Volume III, Curriculum Continuity and Change in the 21st Century (Praeger Perspectives) by p>KevinD.
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