Eric Shyman

Vicious Circles in Education Reform (eBook, ePUB)

Assimilation, Americanization, and Fulfilling the Middle Class Ethic

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Vicious Circles traces the history of development of public education and the near simultaneous advent of educational reform from its very beginning. Drawing on history, politics, law, sociology, and educational research, all aspects of public schooling are brought to light using a non-partisan analytical approach. Critically examining areas such as institutional racism, sexism, ableism, ethnocentrism, and xenophobia, as well as the corporatization and privatization of public schooling, Shyman extracts the fundamental problems that have ever plagued, and continue to plague, successful education reform. Essentially, Shyman demonstrates that little progress in the area of education reform has ever been made. Rather, the same misinformed, repackaged efforts by a disconnected and insularly private political elite have continued to be applied, perpetuating a "vicious circle" of failed and misguided attempts at education reform.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781475827231
• Artikelnr.: 74832080

Autorenporträt

Eric Shyman is an Associate Professor of Child Study at St. Joseph's College on Long Island, NY. He received his doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Stories we Tell: Narratives of Public Schooling
Chapter 2 Schooling as Sieve: Distinguishing between the Classes
Chapter 3 Schooling and the Real America: Immigrants and Americanization
Chapter 4 Schools of Thought: Systematizing the Study of Education
Chapter 5 The Flat Free World: Global Competitiveness and Equal Educational
Opportunity
Chapter 6 Our Kids, Our Rules: Centralizing or Decentralizing America's
Schools
Chapter 7 A Study in Misrepresentation: Intellectual Interpretation of
Policy Talk
Chapter 8 Schooling and the "Culturally Deprived": Racism and American
Schooling
Chapter 9 White Flight and Black Plight: Situating the Segregated
Neighborhood
Chapter 10 Measuring Value: Intelligence Testing and the "Science" of
Ability
Chapter 11 Able Minds, Able Bodies: Ableism and the Public School
Chapter 12 Segregation's New Stripes: Race, Language, and Special Education
Chapter 13 You're an American Now: Assimilation or Elimination for the
un-American
Chapter 14 It's a Man's World
Chapter 15 Vicious Circles in Education Reform: Conclusion