Phenomenon of Obama and the Agenda for Education Can Hope (Still) Audaciously Trump Neoliberalism?
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Paul R. Carr, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada.Brad J. Porfilio, California State University, East Bay, USA.
Anyone who is touched by public education – teachers, administrators, teacher-educators, students, parents, politicians, pundits, and citizens – ought to read this book, a revamped and updated second edition. It will speak to educators, policymakers and citizens who are concerned about the future of education and its relation to a robust, participatory democracy. The perspectives offered by a wonderfully diverse collection of contributors provide a glimpse into the complex, multilayered factors that shape, and are shaped by, education institutions today. The analyses presented in this text are critical of how globalization and neoliberalism exert increasing levels of control over the public institutions meant to support the common good. Readers of this book will be well prepared to participate in the dialogue that will influence the future of public education in United States, and beyond – a dialogue that must seek the kind of change that represents hope for all students.
As for the question contained in the title of the book – The Phenomenon of Obama and the Agenda for Education: Can Hope (Still) Audaciously Trump Neoliberalism? (Second Edition) –, Carr and Porfilio develop a framework that integrates the work of the contributors, including Christine Sleeter and Dennis Carlson, who wrote the original forward and afterword respectively, and the updated ones written by Paul Street, Peter Mclaren and Dennis Carlson, which problematize how the Obama administration has presented an extremely constrained, conservative notion of change in and through education. The rhetoric has not been matched by meaningful, tangible, transformative proposals, policies and programs aimed at transformative change, and now fully into a second mandate this second edition of the book is able to more substantively provide a vigorous critique of the contemporary educational and political landscape. There are many reasons for this, and, according to the contributors to this book, it is clear that neoliberalism is a major obstacle to stimulating the hope that so many have been hoping for. Addressing systemic inequities embedded within neoliberalism, Carr and Porfilio argue, is key to achieving the hope so brilliantly presented by Obama during the campaign that brought him to the presidency.
This book critiques globalization and neoliberalism's impact on public education, advocating for transformative change. It integrates diverse perspectives and analyzes the Obama administration's constrained approach to educational reform. It aims to inspire dialogue for a hopeful future in education.
Acknowledgments.
Foreword: Barack Obama's Neoliberal War on Public and Democratic Education (2014, for the second edition), Paul Street.
Foreword: Challenging the Empire's Agenda for Education (2011, for the first edition), Christine Sleeter.
Introduction: Audaciously Espousing Hope (well into a second mandate) Within a Torrent of Hegemonic Neoliberalism: The Obama Educational Agenda and the Potential for Change, Paul R. Carr and Brad J. Porfilio.
Section I: Using Historical and Theoretical Insights to Understand Obama's Educational Agenda.
Chapter 3. Even More of the Same: How Free Market Capitalism Dominates Education, David Hursh.
Chapter 4. The Hunger Games: A Fictional Future or a Hegemonic Reality Already Governing Our Lives? Virginia Lea.
Chapter 5. Ignored Under Obama: Word Magic, Crisis Discourse, and Utopian Expectations, P. L. Thomas.
Chapter 6. The Obama Education Marketplace and the Media: Common Sense School Reform for Crisis Management, Rebecca A. Goldstein, Sheila Macrine, and Nataly Z. Chesky.
Section II: The Perils of Neoliberal Schooling: Critiquing Corporatized Forms of Schooling and a Sober Assessment of Where Obama Is Taking the United States.
Chapter 7. Charter Schools and the Privatization of Public Schools, Mary Christianakis and Richard Mora.
Chapter 8. Undoing Manufactured Consent: Union Organizing of Charter Schools in Predominately Latino/a Communities, Theresa Montaño and Lynne Aoki.
Chapter 9. Dismantling the Commons: Undoing the Promise of Affordable, Quality Education for a Majority of California Youth, Roberta Ahlquist.
Chapter 10. Obama, Escucha! Estamos en la Lucha! Challenging Neoliberalism in Los Angeles Schools, Theresa Montaña.
Chapter 11. From PACT to Pearson: Teacher Performance Assessment and the Corporatization of Teacher Education, Ann Berlak and Barbara Madeloni.
Chapter 12. Value-Added Measures and the Rise of Antipublic Schooling: The Political, Economic, and Ideological Origins of Test-Based Teacher Evaluation, Mark Garrison.
Section III: Envisioning New Schools and a New Social World: Stories of Resistance, Hope, and Transformation.
Chapter 13. The Neoliberal Metrics of the False Proxy and Pseudo Accountability, Randy L. Hoover.
Chapter 14. Empire and Education for Class Consciousness: Class War and Education in the United States, Rich Gibson and E. Wayne Ross.
Chapter 15. Refocusing Community Engagement: A Need for a Different Accountability, Tina Wagle and Paul Theobald.
Chapter 16. If There is Anyone Out There..., Peter McLaren.
Chapter 17. Afterword: Working the Contradictions: The Obama Administration's Educational Policy and Democracy to Come (from the 2011 edition), Dennis Carlson.
Chapter 18. Afterword: Barack Obama: The Final Frontier, Peter McLaren.
Chapter 19. Afterword: Reclaiming the Promise of Democratic Public Education in New Times, Dennis Carlson.
About the Authors.
Index.
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Paul R. Carr, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada.Brad J. Porfilio, California State University, East Bay, USA.