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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452271803321

Autore

Molnar Alex

Titolo

School commercialism : from democratic ideal to market commodity / / Alex Molnar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-315-02443-8

0-415-95132-1

1-136-73009-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 177 p.)

Collana

Positions : education, politics, and culture

Disciplina

371.19/5

Soggetti

Commercialism in schools - United States

Business and education - United States

Education - United States - Marketing

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Every child a consumer -- The sky's the limit: trends in schoolhouse marketing since 1990 -- Eat, drink, and be diabetic: using schools to promote illness -- Controlling the masses vs. liberating them: Edward Bernays and John Dewey considered -- Whittle or virtually nothing: the emergence of Edison schools and knowledge universe -- Futures trading: buying and selling education in the global marketplace.