A01=Eric Shyman
Author_Eric Shyman
Category=JNF
education
education philosophy
education theory
elementary education
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public education
reform
secondary education
Product details
- ISBN 9781475827217
- Weight: 381g
- Dimensions: 159 x 239mm
- Publication Date: 12 Oct 2016
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Vicious Circles traces the history of development of public education and the near simultaneous advent of educational reform from its very beginning. Drawing on history, politics, law, sociology, and educational research, all aspects of public schooling are brought to light using a non-partisan analytical approach. Critically examining areas such as institutional racism, sexism, ableism, ethnocentrism, and xenophobia, as well as the corporatization and privatization of public schooling, Shyman extracts the fundamental problems that have ever plagued, and continue to plague, successful education reform. Essentially, Shyman demonstrates that little progress in the area of education reform has ever been made. Rather, the same misinformed, repackaged efforts by a disconnected and insularly private political elite have continued to be applied, perpetuating a “vicious circle” of failed and misguided attempts at education reform.
Eric Shyman is assistant professor of Child Study at St. Joseph’s College on Long Island, New York. He received his doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University.
