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Featuring current information and challenging perspectives on the latest issues and forces shaping the American educational system—with scholarship ...
From the Radical Right to Globalization: the Selected Works of Joel Spring
Starting with the 1972 publication of his seminal work, Education and the Rise of the Corporate State, Joel Spring has been documenting and analyzing ...
This current, comprehensive history of American education is designed to stimulate critical analysis and critical thinking by offering alternative int...
An Introduction
Continuing Joel Spring's reportage and analysis of the intersection of global forces and education, this text offers a comprehensive overview and synt...
From the Puritans to the Trump Era
A History of Ideological Management in Schools, Movies, Radio, and Television
This book analyzes the effect of political and economic forces on the ideas and values disseminated to the general public by schools, movies, radio, a...
The Rise of the Educational Security State
In this ground-breaking book, Joel Spring examines globalization and its worldwide effects on education. A central thesis is that industrial-consumeri...
Continuing Joel Spring’s reportage and analysis of the intersection of global forces and education, this text offers a comprehensive overview and sy...
A Brief History of the Education of Dominated Cultures in the United States
Joel Spring’s history of school polices imposed on dominated groups in the United States examines the concept of deculturalization—the use of scho...
An Intercivilizational Analysis
This is the first book to explore the meaning of equality and freedom of education in a global context and their relationship to the universal right t...
Power, Wealth, Cyberspace, and the Digital Mind
Education Networks is a critical analysis of the emerging intersection among the global power elite, information and communication technology, and sch...
Intergovernmental Organizations, NGOs, and the Decline of the Nation-State
Joel Spring explores three major international educational ideologies that are shaping global society: neo-liberal educational ideology, human rights ...
Documents and analyzes the role and functions of educational policy in the context of today's global economic system, and the consequences of educatio...
Justification, Definition, and Guidelines
In this book, Joel Spring offers a powerful and closely reasoned justification and definition for the universal right to education--applicable to all ...
Tales of Hunting, Friendship, and The Future
Outdoor literature lends itself well to reminiscence of the past; days gone by, hunts with old friends, and good dogs long gone. Joel Spring explored ...
Education for a Long and Happy Life
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explores the meaning of equality and freedom in (global) ed. and relationship to universal rights to ed. Specifically, how ed. rights vary between civ...
Human Capital, Global Corporations, Skills-Based Schooling
In this timely, cogent analysis of trends and powerful forces shaping global educational policy today, Joel Spring focuses on how economization is mak...
Corporatization, Alienation, Consumerism
In this timely analysis of the current state of global educational policies, Joel Spring focuses on the spread of the Western school model and its imp...
Pandemics, Disasters, Nationalism, Religion, and Global Politics
In his latest book, Joel Spring covers major political, economic and social issues affecting US and global education policy today. Crafted to evoke cl...
A History of the Marriage of Schools, Advertising, and Media
In Educating the Consumer-Citizen: A History of the Marriage of Schools, Advertising, and Media, Joel Spring charts the rise of consumerism as the dom...
Intergovernmental Organizations, NGO's, and the Decline of the Nation-state
Joel Spring explores three major international educational ideologies that are shaping global society - neo-liberal educational ideology, human rights...
Ideology, Technology, and Profit
This critical analysis of the American educational-industrial complex--organizations, corporate entities, and political agents that seek to influence ...
Turning his distinctive analytical lens to the politics of American education, Joel Spring looks at contemporary educational policy issues from theore...
In this book Joel Spring traces the long tradition of libertarian opposition to established forms of schooling from Rousseau and William Godwin to A.S...
The Social, Economic, and Political Foundations of Education
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Educational Philosophies of Authority, Freedom, and Culture from Confucianism to Human Rights
In this popular text Joel Spring provocatively analyzes the ideas of traditional and non-traditional philosophies from Confucianism to human rights re...
Pandemics, Disasters. Nationalism, Religion, and Global Politics
"In his latest book, Joel Spring covers major political, economic and social issues affecting US and global education policy today. Crafted to evoke c...
Multicultural Education in the United States and the Global Economy
The Intersection of Cultures: Multicultural Education in the United States and the Global Economy, Fourth Edition offers a unique, problem-solving app...
From Make America Great Again to Stronger Together
Following the epic, contentious 2016 presidential election, Joel Spring’s ongoing documentation and analysis of political agendas for education refl...
A Season of Hunting Stories
“This is my cathedral. These are my meditations. I was raised Methodist, but this is my religion.” “The fields and woods and old orchards here a...
A Practical Guide
A thorough introduction to an increasingly popular fishing sport. Did you know that kayak fishing has shot up in popularity over the past few years? A...
A Story of School Terrorism
Common Core, A Story of School Terrorism is winner of the Society of Professors of Education book award for 2014. Intrigue, politics, and romance coll...
Teaching Academic Writing to U.S.-Educated Learners of ESL
Human Capital, Global Corporations, Skills-based Schooling
Joel Spring discusses the context of multiculturalism, including the roles of dominant and dominated cultures, in the United States educational system...