商品簡介
"Quantz has undertaken a major project, and it will contribute significantly to the social science literature and to the literature on educational ethnography in a major way. What is remarkable about this book is the way it examines the creation of an ethnic and/or consumerist identity to replace nationalist/citizenship identity, all connected to the social relations of neoliberal globalization---and the creation of a transnationalist capitalist class. The work is cutting-edge. It will stand alone as a major contribution to the ethnographic literature on schools."---Peter McLaure, Professor, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
"As always, Quantz is articulate, well-organized, and accessible. This book is a needed contribution to work in socially just leadership and educational studies, and I strongly recommend it."---Shirley R. Steinberg, Director, The Freire Project for Critical Pedagogy, McGill University
The current crisis in American schools has been more than fifty years in the making. The present assumption that "accountability" equals "testing" and that "education" equals "measurable objectives" has occurred in a brief lifetime. How has this happened? Quantz attempts to answer this question in this fascinating study. It is not a history of the movement, but rather an exploration of how the nonrational aspects of schooling have been harnessed to construct a commonsense which serves the interests of transnational corporations. Those educators committed to democracy are left to develop a new pedagogy that rejects the technical solutions that present reforms demand.
作者簡介
Richard A. Quantz is Professor of Social Foundations of Education in the Department of Educational Leadership at Miami University, Ohio. For thirty years, he has been actively teaching and producing scholarly work that critically challenges the fundamental assumptions that guide pedagogy, leadership, policy, and research. One of the co-founders, along with Henry Giroux and Peter McLaren, of the Center for Education and Cultural Studies at Miami University, Quantz has worked to open understanding of education and educational scholarship.
Terry O'Connor was Professor of Social Foundations of Education in the School of Education at The College of New Jersey.
Peter Macolda is Professor of Student Affairs and Higher Education in the Department of Educational Leadership at Miami University, Ohio.
