Controlled by the Corporate Narrative: Obama's Education Policy, the Shock Doctrine, and Mechanisms of Capitalist Power

Autor/in	Lea, Virginia
Titel	Controlled by the Corporate Narrative: Obama's Education Policy, the Shock Doctrine, and Mechanisms of Capitalist Power
Quelle	In: Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education, 4 (2011) 1, S.132-150 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2159-1474
Schlagwörter	Presidents; Educational Policy; Neoliberalism; Social Systems; Low Income; Poverty; Middle Class; Multicultural Education; Public Schools; Equal Education; Power Structure; Corporations; Educational Change; Charter Schools; Race; Social Class; Foreign Countries; Case Studies; California; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? President; Präsident; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Social system; Soziales System; Niedriglohn; Armut; Mittelschicht; Multikulturelle Erziehung; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Unternehmen; Bildungsreform; Charter school; Charter-Schule; Rasse; Abstammung; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Ausland; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Kalifornien
Abstract	This article aims to illuminate how and why public schools have been sustained and/or strengthened as hierarchical, inequitable, and undemocratic sites that serve the corporate capitalist state. In doing so, the author draws on three theoretical ideas: the "shock doctrine," described vividly by Naomi Klein (2007); "critical multicultural education" (Lea 2010); and the idea of "modern disciplinary technologies or mechanisms of power" (Foucault 1995). The article reviews the current, highly unequal, educational landscape in the United States, and some of the ways in which the corporate capitalist agenda has controlled the education policies of President Obama over the last two years. The author explores why most individuals, including members of the middle class and large numbers of poor and low-income people, have consented to a neo-liberal, "free-market," global capitalist order, in spite of the growing inequalities that it generates. Suggestions for interrupting the current, neoliberal, capitalist program are provided. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Buffalo State College School of Education. 1300 Elmwood Avenue Bacon Hall 306, Buffalo, NY 14214. Tel: 716-878-4214; Fax: 716-878-5301; e-mail: schoolofeducation@buffalostate.edu; Web site: http://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/jiae
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01