Seduction of Common Sense How the Right Has Framed the Debate on America's Schools

Name: Seduction of Common Sense How the Right Has Framed the Debate on America's Schools
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ISBN: 9780807748688

ISBN-10: 0807748684

ISBN-13: 9780807748688

Edition: 2008

Authors: Kevin K. Kumashiro, Herbert Kohl

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Just in time for the 2008 elections, The Seduction of Common Sense offers a powerful examination of current education policy initiatives as framed by the rhetoric of the political Right and the political Left. Critical of both sides, Kumashiro first provides a searching look at the Right and shows why it has succeeded so well in winning the debate about the purposes and possibilities of education. Here he brilliantly illuminates how the Right uses particular "frames"-appeals to conservative notions of the traditional family, free enterprise, goodness, and fear-to shape the public's common sense ideas about schooling and build support for its attacks on public education and social justice…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Series Foreword


Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction


"Common Sense" and Schooling


"Right," "Left," and Public Education



Attack on Public Education


Organizational Landscape of the Right


Current Initiatives to Undermine Public Education


Contradictions and Strange Bedfellows



The Power of Frames


"Traditional Family" and Core Values


"Free Enterprise" and Common Sense


"Beacon of Goodness" and Distraction


"Be Very Afraid"



Appropriation of Frames About "Safety"


The Trouble with Safety


The Institutionalization of Bias


The Christian Right and Youth


Appropriations of Four Frames



Failure to Reframe the "Achievement Gap"


Gaps in Achievement


The Demand to Assimilate


Purposes Behind the "Model Minority"


Framing Away Our Collective Responsibilities



Frames for a Broader Left


The Right to Be Different


Oppression Hurts Everyone


Multiple Human Rights


References


Index


About the Author