Schools or markets? [[electronic resource] ] : commercialism, privatization, and school-business partnerships / / edited by Deron R. Boyles

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910449757303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Mahwah, NJ, : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2005
• ISBN: 1-135-60692-7; 1-282-32270-2; 9786612322709; 1-4106-1164-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (268 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): BoylesDeron
• Disciplina: 371.19/5
• Soggetti: Business and education - United States; Commercialism in schools - United States; Privatization in education - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Chapter 1 The Privatization of Food Services in Schools: Undermining Children's Health, Social Equity, and Democratic Education; Chapter 2 Measuring and Fixing, Filling and Drilling: The ExxonMobil Agenda for Education; Chapter 3 Priming the Pump: "Educating" for Market Democracy; Chapter 4 Jesus in the Temple: What Should Administrators Do When the Marketplace Comes to School?; Chapter 5 Teachers, Unions, and Commercialization; Chapter 6 Children as Collateral Damage: The Innocents of Education's War for Reform; Chapter 7 Private Knowledge, Public Domain: The Politics of Intellectual Property in Higher EducationChapter 8 The Two-Way Street of Higher Education Commodification; Chapter 9 Egocentrism in Professional Arts Education: Toward a Discipline-Based view of Work and World; Chapter 10 Controlling the Power Over Knowledge: Selling the Crisis for Self-Serving Gains; Chapter 11 The Exploiting Business: School-Business Partnerships, Commercialization, and Students as Critically Transitive ; Citizens; Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book challenges readers to consider the consequences of commercialism and business influences on and in schools. Critical essays examine the central theme of commercialism via a unique multiplicity of real-world examples. Topics include: *privatization of school food services;*oil company ads that act as educational policy statements;*a parent's view of his child's experiences in a school that encourages school-business partnerships;*commercialization and school administration; *teacher union involvement in the school-business partnership craze currently sweeping the n