Reclaiming Our Children, Reclaiming Our Schools (eBook)

Reversing Privatization and Recovering Democracy in America's Public Schools

Eric Shyman (Autor)

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2016
129 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4758-2991-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Reclaiming Our Children,Reclaiming our Schools offers both a comprehensive censure of the current corporate interest in privatizing public schooling as well as a framework for attaining meaningful education reform based in democracy and the combined will of the public. Using current research and sound philosophical and ethical arguments, Shyman argues for more attention to be paid to teacher expertise, participatory democratic practices, genuine valuation of ethnic and cultural diversity, attention to global citizenship and cooperation, and the prevention of private profit-based interests in public schooling policy and practice. By returning the power of the public school to the public and the true experts, public schools can become the most important tool in securing genuine cultural growth leading to a stronger, safer and more cooperative nation and world.

Autor

Eric Shyman is an assistant professor of Child Study at St. Joseph’s College on Long Island, New York. He received his doctorate at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Inhalt

PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1 - How We Got Here: Education Reform in a Nutshell Chapter 2 - Meeting the Real Standards: Assimilation and the Middle Class Ethic Chapter 3 - Public Peril and Corporate Promise: Civil Rights, School Choice and the Panacea of PrivatizationChapter 4 - One Nation Under Corporatization: The Government and The Lucrative Neoliberal MarketChapter 5 - Building a Foundation for Fabrication: The Rise of the Charter School and Its Tacit Failure to DeliverChapter 6 - Local Kids, Local Control: Crafting the Decentralization of Schooling Across the WorldChapter 7 - Real Value Added: Truly Respecting Teachers and Educationists in Education Reform PolicymakingChapter 8 - Appreciation, Education, Innovation: The Finnish Example of Teacher Preparation and Training Chapter 9 - Power without Dominance: The Governance of Schools through Democratic Participatory and Expert Decision Making ProcessesChapter 10 - Letting the Teachers Teach: Nurturing Respect and Trust For Teachers and the Teaching ProfessionChapter 11 - Citizenship: A Local and Global Necessity for a True Value to SchoolingChapter 12 - A Place for Everyone: Culturally Responsive TeachingChapter 13 - Real Partnerships, Real Choice: Uniting Students, Teachers, and Parents to Effect Genuine Community Investment Chapter 14 - Building the School to Society Pipeline: A Strong Public School System as anAlternative to Mass IncarcerationChapter 15 - The Parameters of Earnestness: Essential Elements for True ChangeBibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.12.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Schlagworte: Education • Educational Reform • Public Education • Public School • Reform • school privatization • School reform
• ISBN-10: 1-4758-2991-4 / 1475829914
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4758-2991-4 / 9781475829914