Public Spaces, Politics, and Policy
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Public Spaces, Politics, and Policy

Historical Entanglements with Irrational Momentism

  1. 305 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Public Spaces, Politics, and Policy

Historical Entanglements with Irrational Momentism

About this book

This books takes a deep dive into the historic, sociopolitical, and economic interests that have resulted in a frontal assault on the very governance of public education.
Recent decades have seen dramatic changes in the landscape of American public education, including the closure of local schools, elimination of teachers' unions, and local school board takeover attempts. In order to explore the social and political motivations behind these changes, the contributors address questions such as: What tactics are being used to drive this paradigm shift where teachers are the enemy, and schools are harming kids? What events in this sociopolitical moment right now make it ripe for dismantling the democratic experiment of public education? In an age of sound bites and instant news, how can the nuanced-and sometimes hypocritical-narrative supporting public education compete for attention with the seductive, political pablum of reactionary groups?
The voices in these chapters include those of curriculum theorists, policy analysts, education practitioners and leaders, and parents-all of whom engage in forms of activism at the local and/or national level.

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Yes, you can access Public Spaces, Politics, and Policy by Todd Alan Price,Morna McDermott McNulty in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Éducation & Théorie et pratique de l'éducation. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. ForewordToward the Concrete
  6. PrefaceDisruption at the School Board
  7. Introduction: Ode to Milgram
  8. Part I: Endless High School, Recurring Nightmare
  9. Chapter 1: Teach Freedom
  10. Chapter 2: Assessing the Historical Landscape of Higher Education and K–12 Policies
  11. Chapter 3: Finding Refuge in Disastrous Circumstances?: Neoliberal Salvation, Educational Parasitism, and School Choice
  12. Chapter 4: Critically Challenging Liberal Interests in School Integration
  13. Part II: Value-Added Teachers
  14. Chapter 5: A Review of Education Censorship and the Restrictions on Youth Rights: 2020–23
  15. Chapter 6: Breaking Free of the “War,” “Crisis,” and “Miracle” Cycles of Reading Policy and Practice
  16. Chapter 7: The Freedom to Read: Two Authors and a Librarian Speak Out
  17. Part III: Tik Tok
  18. Chapter 8: Critical Race Theory as Policy as Curriculum
  19. Chapter 9: BLM at School Howard County: Our Story
  20. Chapter 10: Curricula of Belonging: Intra-Actions at the Intersections of Ethical Commitments and Educational Necropolitics
  21. Chapter 11: Part-Time Faculty and Institutional Disassociation: Queering Adjunct Positionality
  22. Part IV: The Autoworker and the Factory Model
  23. Chapter 12: Umoyja ni Nguvu (Unity Is Strength)
  24. Chapter 13: Listen to Teachers Instead of Elites
  25. Chapter 14: I Never Saw It Coming: Now What?
  26. Afterword: Mourning in America: A Reflection from the Day After
  27. Index
  28. Contributor Biographies