Alex Molnar

School Commercialism

From Democratic Ideal to Market Commodity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Positions: Education, Politics, and Culture
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: RT1321
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 141mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 232g
• ISBN-13: 9780415951326
• ISBN-10: 0415951321
• Artikelnr.: 20773971

Autorenporträt

Alex Molnar is the founder of the Commercialism in Education Research Unit, the only research unit in the world dedicated exclusively to school commercialism. An expert on market-oriented school reforms such as private school vouchers, for-profit schools, and charter schools, he is author of four books and professor and director of the Education Policy Studies Laboratory at Arizona State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editor's Introduction1. Every Child a Consumer2. The Sky's the
Limit: Trends in Schoolhouse Marketing since 19903. Let Them Eat
Hamburgers: Using Schools to Promote Illness4. Controlling the Masses or
Liberating Them? Edward Bernays and John Dewey Considered5. Whittle or
Virtually Nothing: The Emergence of Edison Schools and Knowledge Universe6.
Futures Trading: Buying and Selling Education in the Global Marketplace