The first volume to focus on the intersections of militarization, corporations, and education, Education as Enforcement exposes the many ways schooling has become the means through which the expansion of global corporate power are enforced.
Table of Contents:
Foreword
Governing Through Crime and the Pedagogy of Punishment, HENRY A. GIROUX
Introduction to the Second Edition, Kenneth J. Saltman & David A. Gabbard
Introduction to the First Edition, Kenneth J. Saltman
1. The Function of Schools: Subtler and Cruder Methods of Control, NOAM CHOMSKY
2. Rivers of Fire: BPAmaco’s impact on Education, KENNETH J. SALTMAN and ROBIN TRUTH GOODMAN
3. Education IS Enforcement: The Centrality of Compulsory Schooling in Market Societies, DAVID A. GABBARD
4. Cracking Down: Chicago School Policy and the Regulation of Black and Latino Youth, PAULINE LIPMAN
5. Facing Oppression: Youth Voices from the Front, PEPI LEISTYNA
6. Tased and Confused: From Social Exclusion to Shock in the War on Youth, CHRISTOPHER G. ROBBINS
7. Freedom for Some, Discipline for "Others": The Structure of Inequity in Education, ENORA R. BROWN
8. Forceful Hegemony: A Warning and a Solution for Indian Country, FOUR ARROWS
9. From Abstraction and Militarization of Language Education to Society for Language Education: Lessons from Daisaku Ikeda and Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, JASON GOULAH
10. The Proliferation of JROTC: Educational Reform or Militarization, MARVIN J. BERLOWITZ and NATHAN A. LONG
11. Combat Girls: What Single-Sex Classrooms Have To Do With the Militarization of Women’s Bodies, ROBIN TRUTH GOODMAN
12. Education for War in Israel: Preparing Children to Accept War as a Natural Factor of Life, HAGGITH GOR
13. Post-Columbine Reflections on Youth Violence as a (Trans)National Movement, JULIE WEBBER
14. Imprisoning Minds: The Violence of Neoliberal Education or "I Am Not For Sale", SHEILA LANDERS MACRINE
15. Taking Command: The Pathology of Identity and Agency in Predatory Culture, RON SCAPP
16. Commentary on the Rhetoric of Reform: A Twenty Year Retrospective, SANDRA JACKSON
17. Securing the Corporate State: Education, Economism, and Crisis in the Age of Obama, ALEX MEANS
18. Controlling Images: Surveillance, Spectacle, and High-Stakes Testing as Social Control, KEVIN D. VINSON, E. WAYNE ROSS, and JOHN F. WELSH
19. The Politics of Compulsory Patriotism: On the Educational Meanings of September 11, MICHAEL APPLE
About the Author :
Saltman, Kenneth; Gabbard, David A.
Review :
"This volume offers us a powerful look at what our current education system is doing to us instead of for us. If you have any doubt that education has become a business designed to first serve corporate interests, then political interests, and rarely individual and community interests, Education as Enforcement is a real education for you." -- Gloria Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"For those of us who have worried that the high-standards, high-stakes reform movement really seeks to mold children into standardized, docile, obedient widget makers taking orders from global corporations, Education as Enforcement provides the realization of our worst nightmare. The chapters range from the abstract and conceptual to concrete examples in the schools of Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia to descriptions of how video games train children as soldiers. About the most comforting words in the book are only that the totalitarian trend we are enduring is not inevitable." -- Gerald W. Bracey, George Mason University and High/Scope Educational Research Foundation
"American schooling narrows life choices to a stark dilemma---resist, or become a thug for capital. If you hold out hope for an education in joy and democracy, read this eye-opening book: read it, teach it, give it away, and then shout it from the mountaintops."
--Marc Bousquet, Associate Professor, Santa Clara University
"Kenneth J. Saltman and David A. Gabbard's revised and expanded edition of Education as Enforcement provides a set of powerful critiques of the continued militarization and corporatization of schools. The studies document serious crises in education in the United States and the need for urgent reform."
--Douglas Kellner, Professor and George F. Kneller Philosophy of Education Chair, University of California, Los Angeles
