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Schools or markets? : commercialism, privatization, and school-business partnerships /

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 multiplicity of real-world examples.

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Other Authors: Boyles, Deron
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Mahwah, NJ : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2005.
Subjects:
Business and education > United States.
Commercialism in schools > United States.
Privatization in education > United States.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:1410611647
9781410611642
9780805852035
0805852034
9780805852042
0805852042
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Alex Molnar
  • The Privatization of Food Services in Schools : Undermining Children's Health, Social Equity, and Democratic Education / Carolyn VanderSchee
  • Measuring and Fixing, Filling and Drilling : The ExxonMobil Agenda for Education / Leslee Trammell
  • Priming the Pump : "Educating" for Market Democracy / Randy Hewitt
  • Jesus in the Temple : What Should Administrators Do When the Marketplace Comes to School? / Donna Adair Breault
  • Teachers, Unions, and Commercialization / Beth M. Weiss
  • Children as Collateral Damage : The Innocents of Education's War for Reform / Judy Block
  • Private Knowledge, Public Domain : The Politics of Intellectual Property in Higher Education / Benjamin Baez
  • The Two-Way Street of Higher Education : Commodification / Gary A. Miller
  • Egocentrism in Professional Arts Education : Toward a Discipline-Based View of Work and World / Larry Stultz
  • Controlling the Power Over Knowledge : Selling the Crisis for Self-Serving Gains / Lynn Wilson
  • The Exploiting Business : School-Business Partnerships, Commercialization, and Students as Critically Transitive Citizens / Deron R. Boyles.

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