1st Edition

American Education and Corporations The Free Market Goes to School

By Deron Boyles Copyright 1998
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1998, American Education and Corporations, provides a detailed study of the effects of commercialisation on the public school system. The book provides a powerful indictment of corporate culture and its influence on American public schooling, within a clear theoretical framework. The book looks at the threat of corporate culture to public education and advocates an... Read more

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Schools as Sites for Consumer Materialism

2. Corporate Culture and Schools: Consultants in Search of New Markets

3. The Kroger Connection

4. Privatization and the Future of Public Schooling

5. Critically Transitive Teachers

Index

Biography

Deron Boyles