1st Edition
School Commercialism From Democratic Ideal to Market Commodity
By Alex Molnar
Copyright 2005
192 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
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Pizza Hut's Book It! program rewards students with pizza for meeting their reading goals. Toys R Us paid a Kansas school five dollars for each student who took its toy survey. Cisco Systems donated internet access to a California elementary school, asking in return for the school choir to sing the company's praises while wearing Cisco t-shirts. Kids today face a barrage of corporate messages in... Read more
Series Editor's Introduction1. Every Child a Consumer2. The Sky's the Limit: Trends in Schoolhouse Marketing since 19903. Let Them Eat Hamburgers: Using Schools to Promote Illness4. Controlling the Masses or Liberating Them? Edward Bernays and John Dewey Considered5. Whittle or Virtually Nothing: The Emergence of Edison Schools and Knowledge Universe6. Futures Trading: Buying and Selling Education in the Global Marketplace
Biography
Alex Molnar is the founder of the Commercialism in Education Research Unit, the only research unit in the world dedicated exclusively to school commercialism. An expert on market-oriented school reforms such as private school vouchers, for-profit schools, and charter schools, he is author of four books and professor and director of the Education Policy Studies Laboratory at Arizona State University.
"Alex Molnar develops a merciless and systematic critique of these commercial practices, particularly those linked with the drink and food business to which he dedicates a special chapter (‘Eat, drink and be diabetic’). He shows that the financial benefit for schools if often far from what was expected. He denounces, with many concrete examples, the dangers that those practices imply for the integrity of education administrators."-- Nico Hirtt, European Educational Research Journal
