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Education General

The Phenomenon of Obama and the Agenda for Education

Can Hope Audaciously Trump Neoliberalism?

by (author) Paul R. Carr

Publisher
Information Age Publishing
Initial publish date
Dec 2011
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781617354519
    Publish Date
    Dec 2011
    List Price
    $138.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781617354502
    Publish Date
    Sep 2011
    List Price
    $67.5

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Who should read this book? Anyone who is touched by public education - teachers, administrators, teacher-educators, students, parents, politicians, pundits, and citizens - ought to read this book. It will speak to educators, policymakers and citizens who are concerned about the future of education and its relation to a robust, participatory democracy. The perspectives offered by a wonderfully diverse collection of contributors provide a glimpse into the complex, multilayered factors that shape, and are shaped by, institutions of schooling today. The analyses presented in this text are critical of how globalization and neoliberalism exert increasing levels of control over the public institutions meant to support the common good. Readers of this book will be well prepared to participate in the dialogue that will influence the future of public education in this nation - a dialogue that must seek the kind of change that represents hope for all students. As for the question contained in the title of the book--Can hope audaciously trump neoliberalism?--, Carr and Porfilio develop a framework that integrates the work of the contributors, including Christine Sleeter and Dennis Carlson, who wrote the forward and afterword respectively, that problematizes how the Obama administration has presented an extremely constrained, conservative notion of change in and through education.

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