Full Description
Critical Transformative Educational Leadership and Policy Studies is a comprehensive collection of critical contributions from most of the leading voices in the fields of educational leadership and educational policy studies, pushing back against the current neoliberal authoritarian environment. The volume offers alternative ways to perceive and to formulate education leadership and policy from a critical transformative perspective. Individual chapters discuss such topics as social justice in education; poverty, race and public education; counter-hegemonic education movements; the privatization of schools; and school reform and advocacy leadership, among others, all from a critical perspective. It is a crucial and timely volume for educators, school administrators, educational leaders, social activists, and union leaders concerned with the current state of our universities and our education system.
Perfect for courses such as: Political Economy of Urban Education, Leadership and Policy Studies, Educational Policy and Reform, Politics of Education, Curriculum Theory and Development, Cultural Studies, and Socio Historical Foundations.
Contents
Introduction
Critical Transformative Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
João M. Paraskeva
Part I.Neoliberal Political Economy of Education
Chapter 1. Market Democracy in a Neoliberal Order: Doctrines and Reality
Noam Chomsky
Chapter 2. Against Schooling: Education and Social Class
Stanley Aronowitz
Chapter 3. Rationality Crisis in Higher Education
Clyde Barrow
Chapter 4
Austerity Politics, Coercive Neoliberal Urbanism and the Challenge of Counter-Hegemonic Education Movements
Pauline Lipman
Chapter 5. The Failure of Corporate School Reform: Towards a New Common School Movement
Kenneth Saltman
Part II. Critical Transformative Leadership, Policy and Reform
Chapter 6. Effects on Inequality and Poverty versus Teachers and Schooling on America's Youth
David Berliner
Chapter 7. Dominant Issues, Themes, and Prospects in the Education of Mexican Americans in the United States: An Overview
Cori Salmerón and Ángela Valenzuela
Chapter 8. Turn Around Schools: Towards Authentic School Reform: Eroding Authenticity and the Need for Advocacy Leadership
Gary Anderson
Chapter 9. Resisting and Rolling Back Neoliberalism: The Opt-Out Movement and Teachers' Unions
David Hursh, Zhe Chen, and Sarah McGinnis
Chapter 10. Non-Rationality, Education, and the Ritual Performance of Sara Palin
Richard Quantz
Part III.Open up el padron colonial de poder
Chapter 11
Decolonizing University Leadership: Transforming What It Means to Lead
Antonia Darder
Chapter 12. Itinerant Curriculum Theory: An Epistemological Declaration of Independence
João M. Paraskeva
Chapter 13
Facing the Limits of Modern-Colonial Imaginaries
Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti
Chapter 14. Beyond US-Centered Multicultural Foundations
James Jupp and Miryam Espinosa-Dulanto
Chapter 15. From Paulo Freire to Boaventura de Sousa Santos: Democracy, Education and Emancipation
Ines Barbosa Oliveira
Part IV.Alternative ways to Think Alternatively
Chapter 16. What Is Really Taught as the Content of School Subjects? Teaching School Subjects as an Alchemy
Thomas Popkewitz
Chapter 17. Image Management? Sites of the Real, Visual Culture, and Digital Present-Futures in Education
Bernadette Baker
Chapter 18. Critical Transformative Leadership: Seeming to Change Only One Thing
John Willinsky
Chapter 19. Can Post-Structuralist and Neo-Marxist Approaches Be Joined? Building Composite Approaches in Critical Educational Theory and Research
Thomas Pedroni
Chapter 20
Education and Equality: Learning to Create a Community
Ana Sanches Bello
Part V. The Struggle to Democratize Education
Chapter 21. The Freirean Factor
Gustavo Fischman and Sandra R. Sales
Chapter 22. Teacher Education as an Inclusive Political Project
Jurjo Torres Santome
Chapter 23. Walkouts Teach U.S. Labor a New Grammar for Struggle
Lois Weiner
Chapter 24. Culturally Responsive Teaching: Learning to Teach Within the Context of Culture
Fernando Naiditch
Chapter 25. National Learning Standards, Global Agenda, and Teacher Education
Alvaro Moreira Hypolito
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