Education and Capitalism : Struggles for Learning and Liberation
ISBN: 9781608461479 | 1608461475
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist
Pub. Date: 4/17/2012
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In this collection teachers from across the country unravel the lies spun about public education by corporate board room "reformers."
The conservative, bipartisan consensus dominating the discussion about what's wrong with our schools and how to fix them offers "solutions" that scapegoat teachers, vilify unions, and promise market mentality as the answer. But in each case, students lose. This book, written by teacher activists, speaks back to the elite consensus and offers an alternative vision of learning for libe... MORE
The conservative, bipartisan consensus dominating the discussion about what's wrong with our schools and how to fix them offers "solutions" that scapegoat teachers, vilify unions, and promise market mentality as the answer. But in each case, students lose. This book, written by teacher activists, speaks back to the elite consensus and offers an alternative vision of learning for libe... MORE
| Foreword | p. ix |
| Preface A Defense of Public Education and an Action Plan for Change | p. 1 |
| Schools, Marxism, and Liberation | p. 9 |
| The Struggle for Black Education | p. 41 |
| Focus on: The Indian Boarding Schools | p. 70 |
| Linguistic Justice at School | p. 77 |
| Obama's Neoliberal Agenda for Public Education | p. 109 |
| Focus on: Students, Parents, and Teachers Nationwide Protest G... MORE | p. 135 |
| Teachers' Unions and Social Justice | p. 141 |
| Focus on: The Madison Protests | p. 176 |
| Focus on: Teachers' Struggle in Oaxaca, Mexico | p. 182 |
| Pedagogy and Revolution: Reading Freire in Context | p. 187 |
| Focus on: The Freedom Schools | p. 211 |
| Literacy and Revolution | p. 217 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 243 |
| Notes | p. 245 |
| Index | p. 275 |
| About the Authors | p. 285 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
Sarah Knopp is a public high school teacher in Los Angeles and an activist with United Teachers Los Angeles. Jeff Bale is assistant professor of second language education at Michigan State University. Their Work has appeared in Rethinking Schools, the International Socialist Review, and CounterPunch.
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