
The Commodification of American Education
Persistent Threats and Paths Forward
Myers Education Press
Will be published approx. on 30. April 2021
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-1-9755-0434-2 (ISBN)
Description
For the last few decades, teacher preparation has increasingly aligned itself with "best practices," standards, and accountability, and such policies became mandatory in P-12 schooling nationwide. Technical skills instruction and methods have become the common practice of teacher preparation and accreditation of programs. Teacher candidates are encouraged to be unquestioning servants of a school system rather than educators who govern the meaning of schooling. The purpose of this book is to present a view of how we got to where we are today and to offer strategies to bring the job of teaching back to its roots. It seeks to identify the conservative influences that treat students as a commodity rather than future citizen scholars. For teacher candidates, this has meant the excision of social foundations of education courses and any further explorations of the philosophy of education or the history of schooling in their curricula. The Commodification of American Education looks at ways to re-establish teachers as professionals rather than mere technicians, and to take back public education to transform schools into places that educate while eliminating inequality and oppression.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Gorham
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-9755-0434-2 (9781975504342)
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Commodification of American Education
Persistent Threats and Paths Forward
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Persons
T. Jameson Brewer, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Social Foundations of Education at the University of North Georgia. His teaching experience spans from the middle school, high school, undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels. Broadly conceptualized, his research focuses on the impact of privatization and marketization of public education by way of school vouchers, charter schools, alternative teacher certification, and homeschooling. His most recent books are Philanthropy, Strategy, and Collective Resistance: A Primer for Educators (Myers Education Press, 2019), Learning to Teach in an Era of Privatization: Global Trends in Teacher Preparation, and Teach For All Counter-Narratives: International Perspectives on a Global Reform Movement.
Greg Harman, Ed.D., M.E.A., is an associate professor of teacher education at Lewis-Clark State College. He was formerly at Dominican University, Chicago. He teaches educational psychology, educational philosophy, social studies methods, and mentors teacher candidates in student teaching. He began in education as a social studies teacher, teaching middle and high school students for over a decade in the Twin Cities metro. He has edited for SOJO, reviewed for Education Policy Analysis Archives, has published in both, as well as in Educational Theory, Teaching with Primary Sources: Research & Practice, Critical Questions in Education, and Teaching & Learning.
Greg Harman, Ed.D., M.E.A., is an associate professor of teacher education at Lewis-Clark State College. He was formerly at Dominican University, Chicago. He teaches educational psychology, educational philosophy, social studies methods, and mentors teacher candidates in student teaching. He began in education as a social studies teacher, teaching middle and high school students for over a decade in the Twin Cities metro. He has edited for SOJO, reviewed for Education Policy Analysis Archives, has published in both, as well as in Educational Theory, Teaching with Primary Sources: Research & Practice, Critical Questions in Education, and Teaching & Learning.
Content
Foreword
Noah De Lissovoy
Chapter 1. Introduction
W. Gregory Harman
Chapter 2. Education and School: How Defining Our Terms Determines Our Approach
W. Gregory Harman & Matthew J. Hayden
Chapter 3. Resisting Neoliberal Reforms in Early Childhood Education: Play Pedagogy as the Antidote to GERM
Denisha Jones
Chapter 4. How Schools Reinforce Socially Constructed Notions of "Smartness" and How we Can Subvert them Through Trust
T. Jameson Brewer & Scott T.Grubbs
Chapter 5. Creating and Commodifying the Neoliberal Self: A Weberian Analysis of an International Education Course
Ashlee B. Anderson & Andrea Arce-Trigatti
Chapter 6. Combating the Commodification of Knowledge: The Maker Movement
Michael Schad & Kurt Stemhagen
Chapter 7. Unionizing Educators in Charter Schools: A Case Study of the Chicago Teacher's Union Organizing Model
Michelle Strater Gunderson
Chapter 8. What Are "Soft Skills," and Should We Be Teaching Them?
Bailey B. Smolarek
Editor and Contributor Biographies
Index
Noah De Lissovoy
Chapter 1. Introduction
W. Gregory Harman
Chapter 2. Education and School: How Defining Our Terms Determines Our Approach
W. Gregory Harman & Matthew J. Hayden
Chapter 3. Resisting Neoliberal Reforms in Early Childhood Education: Play Pedagogy as the Antidote to GERM
Denisha Jones
Chapter 4. How Schools Reinforce Socially Constructed Notions of "Smartness" and How we Can Subvert them Through Trust
T. Jameson Brewer & Scott T.Grubbs
Chapter 5. Creating and Commodifying the Neoliberal Self: A Weberian Analysis of an International Education Course
Ashlee B. Anderson & Andrea Arce-Trigatti
Chapter 6. Combating the Commodification of Knowledge: The Maker Movement
Michael Schad & Kurt Stemhagen
Chapter 7. Unionizing Educators in Charter Schools: A Case Study of the Chicago Teacher's Union Organizing Model
Michelle Strater Gunderson
Chapter 8. What Are "Soft Skills," and Should We Be Teaching Them?
Bailey B. Smolarek
Editor and Contributor Biographies
Index