1st Edition

Gaslighting School Educational Policy in a Post-Truth World Systems, Schools and Society

By Grant Rodwell Copyright 2026
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

Focusing on current educational systems in the US, UK, and Australia, Grant Rodwell examines the politics of gaslighting within school educational policy and how this links to political motives in a post-truth world. In recent years, gaslighting has become a major global issue due to various personal, social, and political factors. Using sustained comparative description and analysis, Rodwell... Read more

Abstract

Acknowledgements

Acronyms and abbreviations

Preface

Introduction

1. The gaslighting phenomenon

2. Systemic and structural gaslighting in the US and Australia

3. School education in a post-truth world

4. Gaslighting, moral panics, risk society, dog-whistling, dead-catting and the deep mediatization of school educational policy

5. It all starts at the school gate

6. Gaslighting, narcissism and the new technologies in school pedagogy and practice

7. Risk-society theory, helicopter parents and gaslighting obesity

8. COVID-19 and national governments gaslighting school educational policy and practice

9. School educational policy and gaslighting racism

10. School educational policy and gaslighting gender and sexuality

Index

Biography

Grant Rodwell is a Senior Research Fellow, Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, Australia. He has taught in various Australian universities and has published widely in history. He holds five PhDs from Australian universities. This is his tenth book published by Routledge.

'Understanding educational policy and its subsequent practice within the contexts of gaslighting, moral panics, subversive politics, complicit media, systemic and structural coercion by elected officials and their intended effects on educational policy requires a new paradigm for making sense of the chaos. Grant Rodwell’s Gaslighting School Educational Policy in a Post-Truth World brings it all together by careful comparative analysis, descriptive content and glaring tragic events impacting policy in the US, UK, and Australia. A great read.'

Darol Cavanagh, PhD, Associate Professor, Charles Darwin University, UK, Ret.