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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796881403321

Autore

Coles Gerald

Titolo

Miseducating for the global economy : how corporate power damages education and subverts students' futures / / by Gerald Coles

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Monthly Review Press, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

1-58367-693-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (171 pages)

Disciplina

379.73

Soggetti

Education - Economic aspects - United States

Education - Aims and objectives - United States

Education and globalization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents -- Introduction -- Educating for the global economy -- The flat world and the education needed for it -- The U.S. economy, schooling, and knowledge -- Corporate 'support' of schooling and protecting corporations -- Constricting the curriculum -- U.S. capitalism's pretense of supporting education for the global economy -- Fighting back.