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A Curriculum of Fear - Homeland Security in U.S. Public Schools (Paperback)
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Welcome to Milton High School, where fear is a teacher's best tool
and every student is a soldier in the war on terror. A struggling
public school outside the nation's capital, Milton sat squarely at
the center of two trends: growing fear of resurgent terrorism and
mounting pressure to run schools as job training sites. In
response, the school established a specialized Homeland Security
program. A Curriculum of Fear takes us into Milton for a day-to-day
look at how such a program works, what it means to students and
staff, and what it says about the militarization of U.S. public
schools and, more broadly, the state of public education in this
country. Nicole Nguyen guides us through a curriculum of national
security-themed classes, electives, and internships designed
through public-private partnerships with major defense contractors
like Northrop Grumman and federal agencies like the NSA. She
introduces us to students in the process of becoming a corps of
"diverse workers" for the national security industry, learning to
be "vigilant" citizens; and she shows us the everyday realities of
a program intended to improve the school, revitalize the community,
and eliminate the achievement gap. With reference to critical work
on school militarization, neoliberal school reform, the impact of
the global war on terror on everyday life, and the political uses
of fear, A Curriculum of Fear maps the contexts that gave rise to
Milton's Homeland Security program and its popularity. Ultimately,
as the first ethnography of such a program, the book provides a
disturbing close encounter with the new normal imposed by the
global war on terror-a school at once under siege and actively
preparing for the siege itself.
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