American Education and Corporations: The Free Market Goes to School / Edition 1

by Deron Boyles

Overview

Originally published in 1998, American Education and Corporations, provides a detailed study of the effects of commercialisation on the public school system. The book provides a powerful indictment of corporate culture and its influence on American public schooling, within a clear theoretical framework. The book looks at the threat of corporate culture to public education and advocates an understanding of the democratic importance of schooling as a public good.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138313576
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/29/2020
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: Higher Education
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Boyles, Deron

Table of Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Schools as Sites for Consumer Materialism

2. Corporate Culture and Schools: Consultants in Search of New Markets

3. The Kroger Connection

4. Privatization and the Future of Public Schooling

5. Critically Transitive Teachers

Index

Editorial Reviews

Argues that private businesses are using public schools as worker training sites, resulting in the teaching force being devalued, students being molded into uncritical consumers, and schools being transformed into economic markets. Analyzes school-business partnerships and points out false philanthropy and the ulterior motives behind fast-food reading campaigns and supermarket Sales for Schools promotions. Criticizes privatization in general, describing it as a gambit to secure class differences rather than a simple extension of the free-market into the public sector. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

"Deron Boyles has written a powerful indictment of corporate culture and its influence on American public schooling. American Education and Corporations is informative, instructive, and important for anyone who is concerned about the fate of public education in this country. The book is especially crucial in helping us understand the threat that corporate culture and its advocates pose in undermining the democratic importance of schooling as a public good. It should be read by everyone concerned about the fate of public schools and what to do to prevent them from becoming simply an extension of the corporations." — Henry A. Giroux, Waterbury Chair Professor, Penn State University

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