1st Edition

Global Impacts of the Western School Model Corporatization, Alienation, Consumerism

By Joel Spring Copyright 2019
158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

In this timely analysis of the current state of global educational policies, Joel Spring focuses on the spread of the Western school model and its impact on creating an urban-consumer culture, increasing economic inequalities, contributing to environmental destruction and diminishing compassion and empathy essential for energizing social justice movements. In his signature straightforward,... Read more

1. The Well-Schooled World: An Introduction 

2. Religion and Global Schools: Secularism, Empathy and Compassion in a Corporatized Consumer World 

3. Nationalism: Emotional Attachments to the Nation-State 

4. Culture and Language 

5. Alt-Right and Anti-Globalization: Schools, Global Migration and Humane Capitalism 

6. Anti-Globalization: Antifa, Anarchism, Environmentalism and the Western School Model

 

Biography

Joel Spring is Professor Emeritus at Queens College and the Graduate Center of The City University of New York, USA.