School Reform in a Global Society - 19th Century Schools for the 21st Century

Informationen zum Autor William E. Segall Klappentext This far reaching text, explores the relations between global wealth and poverty, American and European elites and Third World indigenous societies, and the role schools play in the destruction of cultures. It exams how the dark underside of capitalism, called neoliberalism, is using schools to destroy an American generation and why the No Child Left Behind Act is replacing the democracy of Roosevelt and Dewey with Victorian classism. Zusammenfassung Explores the relations between global wealth and poverty! American and European elites and Third World indigenous societies and the role schools play in the destruction of cultures. This book examines how the dark underside of capitalism! called neoliberalism! is using schools to destroy an American generation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Reflections of a Different America: Surviving Ideology Chapter 2 How Eras Change: A History of Neoliberalism Chapter 3 Postcolonial Educational Reformers: A GlobalPerspective Chapter 4 Schools in a Global Society: From a Family of Nationsto a Global Village Chapter 5 Globalization, Schools, and Children in DevelopingNations Chapter 6 The Education of Mean Middle Managers Chapter 7 Deviants, Nostalgia, and Neoliberal Reformers: TheAmerican Social Experience Chapter 8 Neoliberal Reformers: The American EducationalExperience Chapter 9 Victorian Classism: Capitalism or Liberty? Chapter 10 Consequences and Quagmires: CombatingNeoliberalism's Reform of America's Schools Chapter 11 Epilogue

Product details

• Authors: William E. Segall, Segall William E.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.03.2006
• EAN: 9780742524613
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-2461-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; USA, EDUCATION / Administration / General, Organization & management of education, Educational administration and organization, United States of America, USA, Schools, Schools and pre-schools, EDUCATION / Schools / General