Description
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 redistribution of control over social life-that is, the enclosure of the global commons. This condition requires far more than a liberal defense of public schooling. It requires recovering elements of the radical progressive educational tradition while generating a new language of the common suitable to the unique challenges of the global era. Toward a New Common School Movement traces the history of struggles over public schooling in the United States and provides a set of ethical principles for enacting the commons in educational policy, finance, labor, curriculum, and pedagogy. Ultimately, it argues for global educational struggles in common for a just and sustainable future beyond the crises of neoliberalism and predatory capitalism.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1. Beyond the Failure of Neoliberal Schooling 2. From the Commons to the Common 3. A Brief History of Educational Conflict 4. The Dual Crisis of Neoliberalism and Progressive Education 5. Commoning Public Schooling6. Toward a Pedagogy in Common7. Globalization, the Common, and Curriculum8. Steps Forward: Organization and ActionCoda: Common Movements
