Carr / Porfilio / J. The Phenomenon of Obama and the Agenda for Education

Can Hope Audaciously Trump Neoliberalism?
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-61735-452-6
Verlag: Information Age Publishing
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 359 Seiten

Reihe: Critical Constructions: Studies on Education and Society

Who should read this book? Anyone who is touched by public education – teachers, administrators, teachereducators, students, parents, politicians, pundits, and citizens – ought to read this book. It will speak to educators, policymakers and citizens who are concerned about the future of education and its relation to a robust, participatory democracy. The perspectives offered by a wonderfully diverse collection of contributors provide a glimpse into the complex, multilayered factors that shape, and are shaped by, institutions of schooling today. The analyses presented in this text are critical of how globalization and neoliberalism exert increasing levels of control over the public institutions meant to support the common good. Readers of this book will be well prepared to participate in the dialogue that will influence the future of public education in this nation – a dialogue that must seek the kind of change that represents hope for all students. As for the question contained in the title of the bookCan hope audaciously trump neoliberalism?, Carr and Porfilio develop a framework that integrates the work of the contributors, including Christine Sleeter and Dennis Carlson, who wrote the forward and afterword respectively, that problematizes how the Obama administration has presented an extremely constrained, conservative notion of change in and through education. The rhetoric has not been matched by meaningful, tangible, transformative proposals, policies and programs aimed at transformative change. There are many reasons for this, and, according to the contributors to this book, it is clear that neoliberalism is a major obstacle to stimulating the hope that so many have been hoping for. Addressing systemic inequities embedded within neoliberalism, Carr and Porfilio argue, is key to achieving the hope so brilliantly presented by Obama during the campaign that brought him to the presidency.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carr, Paul R.

Porfilio,

Porfilio, Brad J.

J., Brad

Carr,

R., Paul

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover;1
2;Half Title;2
3;Series;3
4;The Phenomenonof Obama and the Agenda for Education;4
5;Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data;5
6;Early praise for The Phenomenon of Obama and the Agenda for Education;8
7;Contents;12
8;Acknowledgements;16
9;Foreword;18
10;Introduction;22
11;Section I: Using Historical and Theoretical Insights to Understand Obama’s Educational Agenda;54
12;Chapter 1: More of the Same;56
13;Chapter 2: Concocting Crises to Create Consent;76
14;Chapter 3: Educational Hope Ignored Under Obama;102
15;Chapter 4: Competing Definitions of Hope in Obama’s Education Marketplace;126
16;Section II: The Perils of Neoliberal Schooling: Critiquing Corporatized Forms of Schooling and a Sober Assessment of Where Obama is Taking Us;148
17;Chapter 5: Charting a New Course for Public Education Through Charter Schools;150
18;Chapter 6: Manufactured Consent;174
19;Chapter 7: Whose Schools are These Anyway—American Dream or Nightmare?;200
20;Chapter 8: Obama, Escucha! Estamos en la Lucha!;222
21;Chapter 9: Standardized Teacher Performance Assessment;240
22;Chapter 10: The Political Economy of Educational Restructuring;264
23;Section III: Envisioning New Schools and a New Social World: Stories of Resistence, Hope, and Transformation;278
24;Chapter 11: The Education Agenda is a War Agenda;280
25;Chapter 12: Connecting Communities and Schools;302
26;Chapter 13: If There is Anyone Out There?. . .;318
27;Afterword;340
28;Biographies;352