| Description |
xi, 252 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Reflections of a different America : surviving ideology -- How eras change : a history of neoliberalism -- Postcolonial educational reformers : a global perspective -- Schools in a global society : from a family of nations to a global village -- Globalization, schools, and children in developing nations -- The education of mean middle managers -- Deviants, nostalgia, and neoliberal reformers : the American social experience -- Neoliberal reformers : the American educational experience -- Victorian classism : capitalism or liberty? -- Consequences and quagmires : combating neoliberalism's reform of America's schools |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-248) and index |
| Subject |
Educational change -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Education and globalization -- United States.
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Neoliberalism -- United States.
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Educational change -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
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| LC no. |
2005027290 |
| ISBN |
9780742524606 hardback alkaline paper |
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0742524604 hardback alkaline paper |
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9780742524613 paperback alkaline paper |
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0742524612 paperback alkaline paper |
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