Demarrais, Brewer, Atkinson, Herron, Lewis

Philanthropy, Hidden Strategy, and Collective Resistance (eBook, PDF)

A Primer for Concerned Educators

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Produktbeschreibung

A 2020 SPE Outstanding Book Award WinnerA 2019 AESA Critic's Choice Award WinnerConservative ideologues have sought to shift the focus from the collective good to the individual good and to redirect the purposes and aims of education away from public benefit and in favor of private enterprise. As such, market-oriented, privatized, and standardized approaches to education reform have worked toward achieving that goal. This book is a primer on how the political right is utilizing various aspects of philanthropy and the political process to influence educational policymaking. In 1971, corporate lawyer and future U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell wrote a detailed memo that galvanized a small group of conservative philanthropists to create an organizational structure and fifty-year plan to alter the political landscape of the United States. Funded with significant "e;dark money,"e; the fruits of their labor are evident today in the current political context and sharp cultural divisions in society. Philanthropy, Hidden Strategy, and Collective Resistance examines the ideologies behind the philanthropic efforts in education from the 1970s until today. Authors examine specific strategies philanthropists have used to impact both educational policy and practice in the U.S. as well as the legal and policy context in which these initiatives have thrived. The book, aimed for a broad audience of educators, provides a depth of knowledge of philanthropic funding as well as specific strategies to incite collective resistance to the current context of hyperaccountability, privatization of schooling at all levels, and attempts to move the U.S. further away from a commitment to the collective good.Perfect for coursessuch as: Critical and Contemporary Issues in Education, Education Policy,Educational Policy Analysis, Social Foundations of Education, Philanthropy,Public Policy & Community Change, Philanthropic Studies, Sociology ofEducation, Politics of Education, Current Issues in Education, Government andthe Mass Media, Polarization of American Politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Myers Education Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781975500726
• Artikelnr.: 56402190

Autorenporträt

Jamie C. Atkinson is an Assistant Professor of Foundations in Education and Master of Arts in Teaching Program Coordinator in the Department of Reading, Foundations, and Technology at Missouri State University. His teaching experience spans middle and high schools, undergraduate, and graduate levels. Jamie¿s primary research focuses on how politics and ideologies combine to drive state educational policymaking. In addition, he examines socio-political, historical, and philosophical foundations contributing to critical democratic understandings in teacher education. His most recent article has been published in the journal Democracy and Education.