Toward a new common school movement / Noah De Lissovoy, Alexander J. Means, Kenneth J. Saltman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Lissovoy, Noah, 1968- author.

Means, Alexander J., 1977- author.

Saltman, Kenneth J., 1969- author.

Series:

Critical interventions (Boulder, Colo.)

Critical interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public schools.

Physical Description:

viii, 125 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, CO : Paradigm Publishers, [2014]

Summary:

In Toward a New Common School Movement, the authors argue that corporate school reform in the United States represents a failed project subverted by profiteering, corruption, and educational inequalities. The book suggests that educational privatization and austerity are not simply bad policies but also represent a broader redistribution of control over social life-that is, the enclosure of the global commons. This condition requires far more than a liberal defense of public schooling. It requires recovering elements of the radical progressive educational tradition while generating a new language of the common suitable to the unique challenges of the global era. Toward a New Common School Movement traces the history of struggles over public schooling in the United States and provides a set of ethical principles for enacting the commons in educational policy, finance, labor, curriculum, and pedagogy. Ultimately, it argues for global educational struggles in common for a just and sustainable future beyond the crises of neoliberalism and predatory capitalism. Book jacket.

Contents:

Beyond the failure of neoliberal schooling

From the commons to the common

A brief history of educational conflict

The dual crisis of neoliberalism and progressive education

Commoning public schooling

Toward a pedagogy in common

Globalization, the common, and curriculum

Steps forward: organization and action

Coda: common movements in action.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781612054407

1612054404

OCLC:

853435863