Understanding neoliberal rule in K-12 schools : educational fronts for local and global justice

The word fundamentalism usually conjures up images of religions and their most zealous followers. Much less often the word appears in connection with political economy. The phrase "free market" gives the connotation that capitalism is freedom. Neoliberalism is the rise of global free-marke...

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Other Authors Abendroth, Mark (Editor), Porfilio, Bradley J. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2015.
SeriesCritical constructions.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806611126
DOI10.1108/978-1-68123-124-2
Physical Description1 online resource (xvii, 380 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Saved by the bell? : Stigma and salvation in the inscription of neoliberal subjectivities / Melissa K. Smythe
  • The role of big data and "personalized learning" in the privatization of public education / Heather Roberts-Mahoney and Mark Garrison
  • Neoliberalism and contemporary reform efforts in mississippi's public education system / Kamden K. Strunk, Leslie A. Locke, and Melandie K. McGee
  • An ironic alliance : A case study approach to the conflict between charity and solidarity in an urban public school / Amy Brown
  • Neoliberalism, global cities, and a public-private partnership : An educational response to neoliberal urbanism / Howard Menard
  • From standardized testing to the war on libya : The privatization of u.s. Education in international context / Derek R. Ford
  • Idiots! : Why critical educational theory isn't critical enough / David Gabbard
  • Education, crime control, and coherence in the neoliberal state / Jeremy Benson
  • The testing industrial complex : Incarcerating education since 2001 / Mari Ann Roberts
  • Stem (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education is not only an integrated curriculum : Stem as Part of an integrated neoliberal agenda / Heidi J. Stevenson
  • The neoliberal agenda for public education : A eulogy / John M. Elmore and Dana M. Simone
  • From occupy to equity : Enacting school reform that subverts the neoliberal agenda / Alan Tinkler
  • Allies against common corp : An invitation to stand together / Casie Fedukovich
  • The socially just school speaks back to neoliberalism / John Smyth, Barry Down, and Peter McInerney
  • Teacher unionism reborn / Lois Weiner
  • Theorizing in the belly of the beast : Resisting the school-to-sweatshop pipeline / Caitlin Cahill, David Alberto Quijada Cerecer, and Leticia Alvarez Gutiérrez
  • Whiteness, nationalism, and neoliberalism : What pat buchanan and the right can teach us about resisting neoliberalism in schools / Zachary Casey
  • Disentangling higher order thinking from neoliberalism and moving toward a democratic vision of schooling / Stephen Vassallo and Marlon Cirker
  • Epistemology and apostasy : The role of education in times of neoliberal hegemony / John A. Cassell and Thomas Nelson
  • Resistance at the roots : Indigenizing mainstream education to end neoliberal violence / Four Arrows (Wahinkpe Topa) aka Don Trent Jacobs.