1st Edition
Handbook of Critical Approaches to Politics and Policy of Education
The Handbook of Critical Approaches to Politics and Policy of Education provides a broad overview of educational policy and politics from critical perspectives engaging with both foundational and cutting edge topics. In critical perspectives, educational policy debates and programs for reform are about more than narrow questions of efficacy say to raise test scores or for simply more educational inclusion, fairer school spending, or even cultural responsiveness. Rather, policy and reform debates represent contested visions for schools and society by social groups vying for hegemony. Critical approaches to educational policy and politics see schooling and education more broadly as contested terrain in which competing visions for education are imbricated with the material and symbolic interests and cultural ideologies of different classes and cultural groups.
Chapters in this volume are organized into five sections. The first three sections provide a foundational overview to educational policy and politics, covering culture and politics of education, political economy of education, and subjectivity and education. These chapters address longstanding and current policy and political debates as well as foundational theoretical debates. The last two sections are organized around two themes that address some of the most significant recent directions of educational politics and policy: disaster politics and technology.
Introduction: Routledge Handbook of Critical Approaches to Politics and Policy of Education
Kenneth J. Saltman and Nicole Nguyen
CULTURE AND POLITICS OF EDUCATION
Chapter 1: The Politics and Cultural Politics of Education
Kenneth J. Saltman
Chapter 2: The Centrality of Conscientization in Critical Pedagogy
Donaldo Macedo
Chapter 3: Democracy after Domination: Imagining Critical Education Beyond Capitalist Futures
Noah DeLissovoy & Alex J. Armonda & Adam Martinez
Chapter 4: Rising Authoritarianism, Populism and the Challenge of Educational Leadership
Alexander Means & Kenneth J. Saltman
Chapter 5: Critical Research Methodology: A Realist Approach
Mark Garrison
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF EDUCATION
Chapter 6: Political Economy, Neoliberalism, and Corporate School Reform
Kenneth J. Saltman
Chapter 7: The Political Economy of Global Education Policy
Francine Menashy & Caroline Manion
Chapter 8: "Innovative" Educational Finance: The Role of Financial Capital in Shaping Schooling
David I. Backer & Dan Cohen
Chapter 9: The Political Economy of Immigration, Xenophobia, and Educational Language Policy
Jason Goulah & Isabel Nuñez
Chapter 10: Beyond the Neoliberal Crisis In Education: Educating For The Common Good
David Hursh
SUBJECTIVITY AND EDUCATION
Chapter 11: "That is Who "We" Are": The "Public Secret:" Racial Violence/White Supremacy, Public Policy and Public Education
Enora R. Brown
Chapter 12: The Precarious Subject of Neoliberal Education: Resilient Life In The Catastrophic Conjuncture
Graham B. Slater
Chapter 13: Building Transformative Justice Communities: Why abolitionist work in schools is, and must always be, feminist
Chrissy Hernandez, Farima Pour-Khorshid , Erica R. Meiners and Sheeva Sabati
SCHOOLING AND THE POLITICS OF DISASTER
Chapter 14: Beyond Pandemic Politics in the Age of Fascist Politics
Henry A. Giroux
Chapter 15: Contested Terrain: School Militarism and the Battle for Hearts and Minds
Scott Harding & Seth Kershner
Chapter 16: Anthropocene, Education, and the Politics of Extinction
Alexander J. Means
TECHNOLOGY
Chapter 17: Transforming the Extractive Politics of STEM Education and CTE
Daniel Morales-Doyle and Kenneth Booker
Chapter 18: EdTech, Market Logics, And Pedagogic Containment: Critical Pedagogies For a Critical Moment
Morgan Anderson
Chapter 19: Confronting the Digital Leviathan in Education: On Cybernetic Pedagogy and Data-intensive Algorithmic Technologies
Mark Garrison
Chapter 20: Global Teacher Movements Contra EdTech: Taking on Inequality and Resisting Neoliberal Education Reforms in the Time of COVID
Carol Anne Spreen & Lucas Cone
Biography
Kenneth J. Saltman is Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. His authored books include The Alienation of Fact: Digital Educational Privatization, AI, and the False Promise of Bodies and Numbers (MIT Press, 2022), The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance (University of Minnesota Press, 2018), The Politics of Education: A Critical Introduction, 2nd Edition (Routledge, 2018), and Scripted Bodies: Corporate Power, Smart Technologies, and the Undoing of Public Education (Routledge, 2016).
Nicole Nguyen is Associate Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. She is author of Suspect Communities: Anti-Muslim Racism and the Domestic War on Terror (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) and A Curriculum of Fear: Homeland Security in US Public Schools (University of Minnesota Press, 2016).
