American Education and Corporations - The Free Market Goes to School (Paperback)

This work argues that private businesses use public schools as worker training sites, resulting in a devalued teaching force, students as uncritical consumers, and schools as economic markets. Boyles analyzes school-business partnerships, revealing false philanthropy and the ulterior motives behind fast-food reading campaigns and supermarket "sales for schools" promotions. This important book criticizes the practice of privatization itself, revealing it to be a conservative gambit to secure class differences, and not a simple extension of free market business influence into the public sector.

General

Imprint:	Crc Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Pedagogy and Popular Culture
Release date:	April 2000
First published:	1998
Authors:	Deron Boyles
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-0-8153-2821-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > General
LSN:	0-8153-2821-4
Barcode:	9780815328216

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