LIBROS DEL AUTOR: kenneth j saltman

20 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: kenneth j saltman

kenneth j saltman Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • Smart Drugs, Attention Doping, and Screen Addicts
    Kenneth J. Saltman
    With this book, Keneth J. Saltman argues that drugs are at the center of the most significant transformations of schooling. Children are increasingly being drugged to compete on standardized tests, to increase their attention levels in school, and are being diagnosed with ADHD at exponentially increasing rates. Saltman describes the material stakes in what he calls the educatio...
    Disponible

    128,62 €

  • The Politics of Education
    Kenneth J. Saltman
    The Politics of Education provides an introduction to both the political dimensions of schooling and the politics of recent educational reform debates. This book remains a much-needed, accessible primer for Education Policy and Politics courses, providing the critical tools needed to make sense of the current politics of education. ...
    Disponible

    83,03 €

  • The Politics of Education
    Kenneth J. Saltman
    The Politics of Education provides an introduction to both the political dimensions of schooling and the politics of recent educational reform debates. This book remains a much-needed, accessible primer for Education Policy and Politics courses, providing the critical tools needed to make sense of the current politics of education. ...
    Disponible

    268,34 €

  • The Corporatization of Education
    Kenneth J. Saltman
    Saltman introduces 11 of his most influential writings across his career with new contextual information for each piece. The volume is framed by a new introduction and conclusion by the author, which re-examine the scope of his work, discuss the larger development of the field over time, and considers what is still to be done. ...
    Disponible

    244,33 €

  • The Corporatization of Education
    Kenneth J. Saltman
    Saltman introduces 11 of his most influential writings across his career with new contextual information for each piece. The volume is framed by a new introduction and conclusion by the author, which re-examine the scope of his work, discuss the larger development of the field over time, and considers what is still to be done. ...
    Disponible

    76,07 €

  • The Disaster of Resilience
    Kenneth J. Saltman
    The past decade has seen a vast expansion of resilience pedagogies, policies, and products in public education, from the Every Student Succeeds Act to social and emotional learning to grit. Educational apps, avatars, and games as well as behaviorist techniques, meditation programs, and biometric devices claim to teach resilience to adverse social conditions while new cyber scho...
    Disponible

    86,77 €

  • The Disaster of Resilience
    Kenneth J. Saltman
    The past decade has seen a vast expansion of resilience pedagogies, policies, and products in public education, from the Every Student Succeeds Act to social and emotional learning to grit. Educational apps, avatars, and games as well as behaviorist techniques, meditation programs, and biometric devices claim to teach resilience to adverse social conditions while new cyber scho...
    Disponible

    31,88 €

  • Scripted Bodies
    Kenneth J. Saltman
    From drugging kids into attention and reviving behaviorism to biometric measurements of teaching and learning Scripted Bodies exposes a brave new world of education in the age of repression. Scripted Bodies examines how corporeal control has expanded in education, how it impacts the mind and thinking, and the ways that new technologies are integral to the expansion of control.　...
    Disponible

    75,14 €

  • Toward a New Common School Movement
    Alexander J Means / Kenneth J. Saltman / Noah De Lissovoy
    Toward a New Common School Movement is a bold and urgent call to action.The authors argue that corporate school reform in the United States represents a failed project subverted by profiteering, corruption, and educational inequalities.Toward a New Common School Movement suggests that educational privatization and austerity are not simply bad policies but represent a broader re...
    Disponible

    85,97 €

  • Toward a New Common School Movement
    Alexander J Means / Kenneth J. Saltman / Noah De Lissovoy
    Toward a New Common School Movement is a bold and urgent call to action.The authors argue that corporate school reform in the United States represents a failed project subverted by profiteering, corruption, and educational inequalities.Toward a New Common School Movement suggests that educational privatization and austerity are not simply bad policies but represent a broader re...
    Disponible

    315,92 €

  • Failure of Corporate School Reform
    Kenneth J. Saltman
    Corporate school reforms, especially privatization, union busting, and high-stakes testing have been hailed as the last best hope for public education ...
    Disponible

    85,82 €

  • Failure of Corporate School Reform
    Kenneth J. Saltman
    Corporate school reforms, especially privatization, union busting, and high-stakes testing have been hailed as the last best hope for public education. Yet, as Kenneth Saltman powerfully argues in this new book, corporate school reforms have decisively failed to deliver on what their proponents have promised for two decades: higher test scores and lower costs. As Saltman illust...
    Disponible

    302,23 €

  • The Gift of Education
    Kenneth J. Saltman
    This is a cutting edge book that not only maps and criticizes venture philanthropy, but also offers a new and different way of conceptualizing public education in response to the neoliberal climate affecting all aspects of public education. ...
    Disponible

    66,75 €

  • Capitalizing on Disaster
    Kenneth J. Saltman
    Highlights the increasing tendancy towards privatization in the US school system and the need to fight it. ...
    Disponible

    104,67 €

  • Schooling and the Politics of Disaster
    Kenneth J. Saltman
    Schooling and the Politics of Disaster is the first volume to address how disaster is being used for a radical social and economic reengineering of education. From the natural disasters of the Asian tsunami and the hurricanes in the Gulf Coast, to the human-made disasters in Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti, Sudan, Indonesia, the United States and around the globe, disaster is increasi...
    Disponible

    91,94 €

  • Capitalizing on Disaster
    Kenneth J. Saltman
    Breaking new ground in studies of business involvement in schooling, Capitalizing on Disaster dissects the most powerful educational reforms and highlights their relationship to the rise of powerful think tanks and business groups. Over the past several decades, there has been a strong movement to privatize public schooling through business ventures. At the beginning of the mil...
    Disponible

    356,26 €

  • The Edison Schools
    Kenneth J. Saltman
    The story of the Edison Schools is a gripping tale of money, kids, and greed. What began in the 1980s as an enterprise to transform public schools quickly became a troubled business battling falling test scores and dismal stock prices. How did the most ambitious for-profit education company in U.S. history lose respect, money, and credibility in such a short time?Revealing how ...
    Disponible

    329,07 €

  • The Edison Schools
    Kenneth J. Saltman
    The story of the Edison Schools is a gripping tale of money, kids, and greed. What began in the 1980s as an enterprise to transform public schools quickly became a troubled business battling falling test scores and dismal stock prices. How did the most ambitious for-profit education company in U.S. history lose respect, money, and credibility in such a short time?Revealing how ...
    Disponible

    73,25 €

  • Strange Love
    Kenneth J Saltman / Kenneth J. Saltman / Kenneth JSaltman / Robin Truth Goodman
    Saltman and Goodman show how corporate-produced curricula, films, and corporate-promoted books often use depictions of family love, childhood innocence, and compassion in order to sell the public on policies that ironically put the profit of multinational corporations over the well-being of people. In doing so, the authors reveal the extent to which globalization depends upon e...
    Disponible

    69,61 €

  • Collateral Damage
    Kenneth J Saltman / Kenneth J. Saltman / Kenneth JSaltman
    From schools advertising McDonald’s, Nike, and Shell oil to military generals appointed as superintendents; from corporate CEOs hailed as education experts to students suspended for wearing Pepsi tee shirts on Coke day; Collateral Damage sifts through a wide range of incidents to reveal how the rising corporatization of public schools needs to be understood as a part of a broad...
    Disponible

    62,14 €