Privatization and Privilege in Education (RLE Edu L) (Routledge Library Editions: Education)

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Already read this title? Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause. Exclusive web offer for individuals. By focusing on case studies inside and outside of the classroom, the authors illuminate the relevance of science in students' everyday lives, offering a new vision of scientific…. Noted scholar Pauline Lipman explores the implications of education accountability reforms, particularly in urban schools, in the current political, economic, and cultural context of intensifying globalization and increasing social inequality and marginalization along lines of race and class.

The authors argue that the most influential and well-known educational policy programs in the past 30 years are not based on democratic consensus, but are instead formulated by the political community as symbolic efforts meant to generate personal partisan gain. Tough Fronts takes the difficult issues in urban education head on by putting street-savvy students at the forefront of the discussion on how to best make successful changes for inner city schools.

Individual chapters discuss scholarly depictions of black America, the social complexity of the…. First published in First Published in By Carlos Alberto Torres.

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In dialogues with key thinkers in the area of critical education, this book documents how a tradition of study grew in the United States. Through in-depth interviews, the author asks each of these thinkers to talk about the relationship between their personal experiences and their academic work. By Francis Phil Carspecken. Ethnographic methods are becoming increasingly prevalent in contemporary educational research. Critical Ethnography in Educational Research provides both a technical, theoretical guide to advanced ethnography--focusing on such concepts as primary data collection and system relationships--and a very….

Edited by Andrew Gitlin. Power and Method demonstrates that political activism can and should be infused into the research process. Edited by Gregory A. Public Schools That Work addresses the efforts of teachers, administrators and parents to develop alternative educational models capable of overcoming the alienation and intellectual disengagement that have become so common in American schools.

Educators working in some of the best alternative…. Hardback — Routledge Critical Social Thought. Edited by Dennis Dworkin , Leslie Roman. McNeil traces the poor quality of high school instruction t the tensions between the social control purposes of schooling and the schools' educational goals.

Critical Social Thought Series Editor:. Edwards , Maria del Guadalupe Davidson College Curriculum at the Crossroads explores the ways in which college curriculum is complicated, informed, understood, resisted, and enriched by women of color. This text challenges the canon of curriculum development which foregrounds the experiences of white people, men and other dominant… Paperback — Routledge Critical Social Thought. Zeichner The Struggle for the Soul of Teacher Education is a much-needed exploration of the unprecedented current controversies and debates over teacher education and professionalism.

Set within the context of neo-liberal education reforms across the globe, the book explores how the current struggles over… Paperback — Routledge Critical Social Thought. Critical Peace Education and Global Citizenship Narratives From the Unofficial Curriculum, 1st Edition By Rita Verma Critical Peace Education and Global Citizenship offers narrative accounts representing multiple ways teacher and learner activists have come to realize possibilities for peace and reconciliation through unofficial curricula.

With these narratives, the book demonstrates the connections between… Paperback — Routledge Critical Social Thought. The Critical Turn in Education From Marxist Critique to Poststructuralist Feminism to Critical Theories of Race, 1st Edition By Isaac Gottesman The Critical Turn in Education traces the historical emergence and development of critical theories in the field of education, from the introduction of Marxist and other radical social theories in the s to the contemporary critical landscape.

The book begins by tracing the first waves of… Paperback — Routledge Critical Social Thought. Hursh The End of Public Schools analyzes the effect of foundations, corporations, and non-governmental organizations on the rise of neoliberal principles in public education. By first contextualizing the privatization of education within the context of a larger educational crisis, and with particular… Paperback — Routledge Critical Social Thought.

Ferrare Mapping Corporate Education Reform outlines and analyzes the complex relationships between policy actors that define education reform within the current, neoliberal context. Using social network analysis and powerful data visualization tools, the authors identify the problematic roots of these… Paperback — Routledge Critical Social Thought. Hess , Paula McAvoy WINNER Grawemeyer Award in Education Helping students develop their ability to deliberate political questions is an essential component of democratic education, but introducing political issues into the classroom is pedagogically challenging and raises ethical dilemmas for teachers.

Exploring Race in Predominantly White Classrooms Scholars of Color Reflect, 1st Edition Edited by George Yancy , Maria del Guadalupe Davidson Although multicultural education has made significant gains in recent years, with many courses specifically devoted to the topic in both undergraduate and graduate education programs, and more scholars of color teaching in these programs, these victories bring with them a number of pedagogic… Paperback — Routledge Critical Social Thought.

By documenting the practices of socially committed teachers at an urban… Paperback — Routledge Critical Social Thought. Critical Pedagogy and Social Change Critical Analysis on the Language of Possibility, 1st Edition By Seehwa Cho At its core, the main goal of critical pedagogy is deceptively simple—to construct schools and education as agents of change. Wayne Au brings together curriculum theory, critical educational studies, and feminist standpoint theory with… Paperback — Routledge Critical Social Thought.

These factors and more set the stage for Pauline Lipman's insightful analysis of the relationship… Paperback — Routledge Critical Social Thought. Hess In a conservative educational climate that is dominated by policies like No Child Left Behind, one of the most serious effects has been for educators to worry about the politics of what they are teaching and how they are teaching it.

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The Phenomenon of Obama and the Agenda for Education. Where to Send Your Child: Private, Public or Home School? The Rebirth of Private Policing. Social Policy Towards The Co-operative Movement and Communities in Britain, Durkheim and Modern Education.

Academies, Free Schools and Social Justice. Education and the Labour Government. Policy and Politics in Education: Sponsored Grant-maintained Schools and Religious Diversity. Privatisation, Education and Social Justice. Researching The Powerful In Education. Doing Research About Education.

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