Vicious Circles in Education Reform (eBook)

Assimilation, Americanization, and Fulfilling the Middle Class Ethic

Eric Shyman (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
146 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4758-2723-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Vicious Circles traces the history of development of public education and the near simultaneous advent of educational reform from its very beginning. Drawing on history, politics, law, sociology, and educational research, all aspects of public schooling are brought to light using a non-partisan analytical approach. Critically examining areas such as institutional racism, sexism, ableism, ethnocentrism, and xenophobia, as well as the corporatization and privatization of public schooling, Shyman extracts the fundamental problems that have ever plagued, and continue to plague, successful education reform. Essentially, Shyman demonstrates that little progress in the area of education reform has ever been made. Rather, the same misinformed, repackaged efforts by a disconnected and insularly private political elite have continued to be applied, perpetuating a "e;vicious circle"e; of failed and misguided attempts at education reform.

Autor

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

Inhalt

PrefaceAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 The Stories we Tell: Narratives of Public SchoolingChapter 2 Schooling as Sieve: Distinguishing between the ClassesChapter 3 Schooling and the Real America: Immigrants and AmericanizationChapter 4 Schools of Thought: Systematizing the Study of EducationChapter 5 The Flat Free World: Global Competitiveness and Equal Educational Opportunity Chapter 6 Our Kids, Our Rules: Centralizing or Decentralizing America’s Schools Chapter 7 A Study in Misrepresentation: Intellectual Interpretation of Policy TalkChapter 8 Schooling and the “Culturally Deprived”: Racism and American Schooling Chapter 9 White Flight and Black Plight: Situating the Segregated NeighborhoodChapter 10 Measuring Value: Intelligence Testing and the “Science” of Ability Chapter 11 Able Minds, Able Bodies: Ableism and the Public School Chapter 12 Segregation’s New Stripes: Race, Language, and Special EducationChapter 13 You’re an American Now: Assimilation or Elimination for the un-American Chapter 14 It’s a Man’s World Chapter 15 Vicious Circles in Education Reform: Conclusion

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.10.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Education • Education philosophy • education theory • Elementary education • Public Education • Reform • secondary education
• ISBN-10: 1-4758-2723-7 / 1475827237
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4758-2723-1 / 9781475827231