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Miseducating for the Global Economy - How Corporate Power Damages Education and Subverts Students' Futures (Hardcover)
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Miseducating for the Global Economy - How Corporate Power Damages Education and Subverts Students' Futures (Hardcover)
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How the American education system became a global economy industry
All across the United States, corporations, politicians,
economists, educators - and now, most remarkably, Ivanka Trump -
cry out for new "education for the twenty-first century economy."
Meanwhile, millions of Americans face increasing difficulty finding
well paying, secure jobs. But the current employment crisis is not
so much due to the educational system as it is to a sustained
corporate effort to keep the public in ignorance about the damage
wrought by the global economy itself. Miseducating for the Global
Economy reveals that behind the going concern for "global economy
education" lies capitalism's metastasizing indifference to human
values, to a fair distribution of resources, to its radical
restructuring of workplaces with an attendant intensification of
work effort, and to the genuine well-being of workers and their
families. Gerald Coles's book provides a real education about the
twenty-first-century global economy - and what corporations are
doing to prevent our learning about it. Corporations and business
organizations, for instance, resolutely withhold massive wealth
that could be used to fund more realistic occupational education,
even as they skew educational curricula away from too much global
economic awareness. Coles describes the intellectually narrow and
morally crippling effects of the corporate-control of education;
how the imperative for profit maximizes the misunderstanding of
communities, nations, and the environment, even as it minimizes
aesthetic appreciation, cultural expression, compassion itself. But
it is by understanding all this, Coles argues, that real change can
begin. Using this analysis, educators, parents, educational
organizations, and activists can finally begin to craft schooling
that truly serves students and advances global humanity.
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