Gabbard David - Education as enforcement: the militarization and corporatization of schools

Education as Enforcement

The first volume to focus on the intersections of militarization, corporations, and education, Education as Enforcement exposed the many ways in which schooling has become a means through which the expansion of global corporate power is enforced. Since publication of the first edition, these trends have increased to disturbing levels as a result of the extensive militarization of civil society, the implosion of the neoconservative movement, and the financial meltdown that radically called into question the basic assumptions undergirding neoliberal ideology. An understanding of the enforcement of these corporate economic imperatives remains essential to a critical discussion of related militarized trends in schools, whether through accountability and standards, school security, or other discipline-based reforms.

Education as Enforcement, Second Edition elaborates upon the central arguments of the first edition and updates readers on how recent events have reinforced their continued original relevance. In addition to substantive updates to several original chapters, this second edition includes a new foreword by Henry Giroux, a new introduction, and four new chapters that reveal the most contemporary expressions of the militarization and corporatization of education. New topics covered in this collection include zero-tolerance, foreign and second language instruction in the post-9/11 context, the rise of single-sex classrooms, and the intersection of the militarization and corporatization of schools under the Obama administration.

Kenneth J. Saltman is Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Research at DePaul University.

David A. Gabbard is Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at East Carolina University.

Education as Enforcement

The Militarization and Corporatization of Schools

Second Edition

Edited by

Kenneth J. Saltman

David A. Gabbard

NEW YORK AND LONDON

First edition published 2003
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This edition published 2011
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Education as enforcement : the militarization and corporatization of schools /
edited by Kenneth J. Saltman & David A. Gabbard.
p. cm.
1. Educational sociologyUnited States. 2. Education and stateUnited States.
3. CorporatizationUnited States. 4. Commercialism in schoolsUnited States.
5. MilitarismUnited States. I. Saltman, Kenneth J., 1969 II. Gabbard, David.
LC191.4.E36 2010
306.43dc22
2010023374

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