1st Edition

Handbook of Critical Approaches to Politics and Policy of Education

Edited By Kenneth J. Saltman, Nicole Nguyen Copyright 2022
274 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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).