The Seduction of Common Sense - How the Right Has Framed the Debate on America's Schools

Informationen zum Autor Kevin K. Kumashiro is an associate professor of policy studies at the University of Illinois-Chicago, College of Education, and the founding director of the Center for Anti-Oppressive Education. Klappentext Just in time for the 2008 elections! this title offers a powerful examination of current education policy initiatives as framed by the rhetoric of the political Right and Left. Zusammenfassung Offers an examination of education policy initiatives as framed by the rhetoric of the political Right and the political Left. Critical of both sides! this work provides a searching look at the Right and shows why it has succeeded so well in winning the debate about the purposes and possibilities of education.

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• Authors: Kevin K Kumashiro, Kevin K. Kumashiro, Kevin K./ Kohl Kumashiro
• Assisted by: William Ayers (Editor), Therese Quinn (Editor)
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.03.2008
• EAN: 9780807748688
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-4868-8
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Teaching for Social Justice (P; Teaching for Social Justice Series; Teaching for Social Justice; The Teaching for Social Justice Series; Teaching for Social Justice (P
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system