The corporatizing and privatizing of schooling: A call for grounded critical praxis

Educational Theory

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 431-444

  McKenzie, Kathryn Bell ^a   Scheurich, James Joseph ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 26444543549     PISSN: 00132004     EISSN: 17415446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-2004.2004.00029.x     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Kenneth Saltman, Collateral Damage: Corporatizing Public Schools - A Threat to Democracy (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001). This work will be cited as CD in the text for all subsequent references.
2. Henry Giroux, Stealing Innocence: Corporate Culture's War on Children (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001). This work will be cited as SI in the text for all subsequent references.
3. Alex Molnar, Giving Kids the Business: The Commercialization of America's Schools (New York: Westview/HarperCollins, 1996). This work will be cited as KB in the text for all subsequent references.
4. Henry M. Levin, Privatizing Education: Can the Marketplace Deliver Choice, Efficiency, Equity, and Social Cohesion? (Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 2001). This work will be cited as PE in the text for all subsequent references.
5. Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man (New York: Free Press, 1992).
6. David C. Berliner and Bruce J. Biddle, Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America's Public Schools (Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1995).
7. See, for example, Lisa Delpit, Other People's Children (New York: New Press, 1996); and Richard Valencia, Evolution of Deficit Thinking (London: Taylor & Francis, 1997).
8. Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (New York: Continuum, 2000), 96.
9. Ibid., 106, emphasis added.
10. Ibid., 124, emphasis added.
11. For more information on the Llano Grande effort, see http://www.llanogrande.org/ (last accessed July 1, 2004).
12. For more on the Algebra Project, see http://www.algebra.org/index.html (last accessed July 1, 2004).
13. There are many Web sites associated with the Interfaith or Industrial Areas Foundation. For one example, see http://www.tresser.com/IAF.htm (last accessed July 1, 2004).
14. For more information on the ACORN project, see http://www.acorn.org/ (last accessed July 1, 2004).