| Political Spectacle and the Fate of American Schools Contributor(s): Smith, Mary Lee (Author), Miller-Kahn, Linda (Author), Heinecke, Walter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415932009 ISBN-13: 9780415932004 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2003 Annotation: This timely and important project is both critical and constructive. As educational policy becomes one of our major political backgrounds, the connection between politics and policy is both underscored and criticized. Mary Lee Smith and her associates take their criticism one decisive step further, examining the transitive relation between politics and actual classroom practice. They shows that educational policy serves as political propaganda directed at an electorate desperate for change, and they refocus current educational debates, casting them in their true partisan light while demonstrating how the public can recognize symbolic policies and participate in the creation of policy that truly serves the public good. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Educational Policy & Reform - Education | Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects - Political Science |
| Dewey: 379.73 |
| LCCN: 2004041838 |
| Series: Critical Social Thought |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 6.28" W x 9.2" (1.18 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The authors argue that the most influential and well-known educational policy programs in the past 30 years are not based on democratic consensus, but are instead formulated by the political community as symbolic efforts meant to generate personal partisan gain. |