Reclaiming Education Moving Beyond the Culture of Reform /

• Main Author: Scapp, Ron (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Series: New Frontiers in Education, Culture and Politics
• Subjects: Education.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Educational sociology.; Education > Philosophy.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Education and state.; Sociology of Education.; Education Policy.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Educational Philosophy.

This book is an appeal to those directly and indirectly involved in education reform to reconsider the very nature of education as a process of transformation and not, as the neoliberal corporate model insists upon, as a “product.” By using Paulo Freire’s fundamental principle of understanding “educ...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: The Culture of Reform
• Chapter 2: Getting Down to Business
• Chapter 3: The Product: Education
• Chapter 4: More than Competition, More than Information
• Chapter 5: Becoming Knowledgeable and the Search for Wisdom
• Chapter 6: Politics and Education
• Chapter 7: Education as the Practice of Freedom
• Appendix: They Skool: The Anti-Urban Bias in Urban Education.