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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.
List of contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 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 Privatization
Chapter 4 - One Nation Under Corporatization: The Government and The Lucrative Neoliberal Market
Chapter 5 - Building a Foundation for Fabrication: The Rise of the Charter School and Its Tacit Failure to Deliver
Chapter 6 - Local Kids, Local Control: Crafting the Decentralization of Schooling Across the World
Chapter 7 - Real Value Added: Truly Respecting Teachers and Educationists in Education Reform Policymaking
Chapter 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 Processes
Chapter 10 - Letting the Teachers Teach: Nurturing Respect and Trust For Teachers and the Teaching Profession
Chapter 11 - Citizenship: A Local and Global Necessity for a True Value to Schooling
Chapter 12 - A Place for Everyone: Culturally Responsive Teaching
Chapter 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 an
Alternative to Mass Incarceration
Chapter 15 - The Parameters of Earnestness: Essential Elements for True Change
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By Eric Shyman
