1st Edition
Schools or Markets? Commercialism, Privatization, and School-business Partnerships
Edited By Deron R. Boyles
Copyright 2005
268 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book challenges readers to consider the consequences of commercialism and business influences on and in schools. Critical essays examine the central theme of commercialism via a unique multiplicity of real-world examples. Topics include: *privatization of school food services; *oil company ads that act as educational policy statements; *a parent's view of his child's experiences in a school... Read more
Contents: A. Molnar, Foreword. Preface. C. VanderSchee, The Privatization of Food Services in Schools: Undermining Children's Health, Social Equity, and Democratic Education. L. Trammell, Measuring and Fixing, Filling and Drilling: The ExxonMobile Agenda for Education. R. Hewitt, Priming the Pump: "Educating" for Market Democracy. D.A. Breault, Jesus in the Temple: What Should Administrators Do When the Marketplace Comes to School? B. Weiss, Teachers, Unions, and Commercialization. J. Block, Children as Collateral Damage: The Innocents of Education's War for Reform. B. Baez, Private Knowledge, Public Domain: The Politics of Intellectual Property in Higher Education. G.A. Miller, The Two-Way Street of Higher Education Commodification. L. Stultz, Egocentrism in Professional Arts Education: Toward a Discipline-Based View of Work and World. L. Wilson, Controlling the Power Over Knowledge: Selling the Crisis for Self-Serving Gains. D. Boyles, The Exploiting Business: School Business Partnerships, Commercialization, and Students as Critically Transitive Citizens.
Biography
Deron R. Boyles
"The text is extensive in its philsophically- and academically-grounded critiques of commerical interests partnering with educational institutions which instructors and teachers in a variety of education-related subjects will find useful. It reiterates and extends critiques such as that of Thorstein Veblen (1918) and his "captains of erudition" from the early 1900s. It also effectively shows the ways that corporate influence in schools goes well beyond education per se, to affect health, social justice, and our more intangible quality of life issues." - David B. Bills and Ryan Wells in Educational Studies, Vol. 43, No.2.
