Reclaiming Our Children, Reclaiming Our Schools

Reversing Privatization and Recovering Democracy in America's Public Schools

Eric Shyman

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2016
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781475829914
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Reclaiming Our Children,Reclaiming our Schools offers both a comprehensive censure of the current corporate interest in privatizing public schooling as well as a framework for attaining meaningful education reform based in democracy and the combined will of the public. Using current research and sound philosophical and ethical arguments, Shyman argues for more attention to be paid to teacher expertise, participatory democratic practices, genuine valuation of ethnic and cultural diversity, attention to global citizenship and cooperation, and the prevention of private profit-based interests in public schooling policy and practice. By returning the power of the public school to the public and the true experts, public schools can become the most important tool in securing genuine cultural growth leading to a stronger, safer and more cooperative nation and world.

Table of contents

• Cover-Page
• Halftitle
• 1 How We Got Here: Education Reform in a Nutshell
• 2 Be American: Assimilation and the Dominant Middle-Class Ethic in Schools
• 3 Public Peril and Corporate Promise: Civil Rights, School Choice, and the Panacea of Privatization
• 4 One Nation under Corporatization: The Government and the Neoliberal Education Market
• 5 Foundation for Fabrication: The Boisterous Rise and Tacit Failure of the Charter School
• 6 Local Kids, Local Control: Crafting the Decentralization of Schooling across the World
• 7 Real Value Added: Respecting Teachers and Educationists in Education Reform Policy
• 8 Appreciation, Education, Innovation: The Finnish Example of Teacher Education
• 9 Power without Dominance: Governing Schools through Participatory Decision Making
• 10 Let the Teachers Teach: Nurturing Respect and Trust for Teachers and the Teaching Profession
• 11 Citizenship: A Local and Global Necessity for a True Value to Schooling
• 12 A Place for Everyone: Culturally Responsive Teaching
• 13 Real Partnerships, Real Choice: Uniting Students, Teachers, and Parents to Effect Genuine Community Investment
• 14 Building the School to Society Pipeline: Mass Education, Not Mass Incarceration
• 15 The Parameters of Earnestness: Essential Elements for True Change
• Bibliography