Vicious Circles in Education Reform: Assimilation, Americanization, and Fulfilling the Middle Class Ethic Contributor(s): Shyman, Eric (Author) |
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ISBN: 1475827229 ISBN-13: 9781475827224 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $31.68 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Education | Educational Policy & Reform - Federal Legislation - Education | Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects - Education | Administration - General |
Dewey: 371.010 |
LCCN: 2016027101 |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.50 lbs) 158 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Vicious Circles traces the history of development of public education and the near simultaneous advent of educational reform from its very beginning. Drawing on history, politics, law, sociology, and educational research, all aspects of public schooling are brought to light using a non-partisan analytical approach. Critically examining areas such as institutional racism, sexism, ableism, ethnocentrism, and xenophobia, as well as the corporatization and privatization of public schooling, Shyman extracts the fundamental problems that have ever plagued, and continue to plague, successful education reform. Essentially, Shyman demonstrates that little progress in the area of education reform has ever been made. Rather, the same misinformed, repackaged efforts by a disconnected and insularly private political elite have continued to be applied, perpetuating a "vicious circle" of failed and misguided attempts at education reform. |