Reclaiming Our Children, Reclaiming Our Schools: Reversing Privatization and Recovering Democracy in America’s Public Schools

Reclaiming Our Children, Reclaiming Our Schools: Reversing Privatization and Recovering Democracy in America’s Public Schools
by: Eric Shyman Professor of Special Education Dowling College NY professor of special education Dowling College NY (Author)
Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publication Date: December 20, 2016
Language:English
Print Length:154 pages
ISBN-10:1475829892
ISBN-13:9781475829891
Book Description
Reclaiming Our Children,Reclaiming our Schools offers both a comprehensive censure of the current corporate interest in privatizing public schooling as well as a framework for attaining meaningful education reform based in democracy and the combined will of the public. Using current research and sound philosophical and ethical arguments, Shyman argues for more attention to be paid to teacher expertise, participatory democratic practices, genuine valuation of ethnic and cultural diversity, attention to global citizenship and cooperation, and the prevention of private profit-based interests in public schooling policy and practice. By returning the power of the public school to the public and the true experts, public schools can become the most important tool in securing genuine cultural growth leading to a stronger, safer and more cooperative nation and world.
About the Author
Reclaiming Our Children,Reclaiming our Schools offers both a comprehensive censure of the current corporate interest in privatizing public schooling as well as a framework for attaining meaningful education reform based in democracy and the combined will of the public. Using current research and sound philosophical and ethical arguments, Shyman argues for more attention to be paid to teacher expertise, participatory democratic practices, genuine valuation of ethnic and cultural diversity, attention to global citizenship and cooperation, and the prevention of private profit-based interests in public schooling policy and practice. By returning the power of the public school to the public and the true experts, public schools can become the most important tool in securing genuine cultural growth leading to a stronger, safer and more cooperative nation and world. Read more