Saltman and Goodman show how corporate-produced curricula, films, and corporate-promoted books often use depictions of family love, childhood innocence, and compassion in order to sell the public on policies that ironically put the profit of multinational corporations over the well-being of people. In doing so, the authors reveal the extent to which globalization depends upon education and also show how battles over culture, language, and the control of information are matters of life, death, and democracy. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Saltman and Goodman show how corporate-produced curricula, films, and corporate-promoted books often use depictions of family love, childhood innocence, and compassion in order to sell the public on policies that ironically put the profit of multinational corporations over the well-being of people. In doing so, the authors reveal the extent to which globalization depends upon education and also show how battles over culture, language, and the control of information are matters of life, death, and democracy. Visit our website for sample chapters!
1 Introduction 2 Junk King Education 3 Rivers of Fire: Amoco's iMPACT on Education 4 A Time For Flying Horses: Oil Education and the Future of Literature 5 The Mayor's Madness: So Far from God 6 Enemy of the State 7 A Hilarious Romp throught the Holocaust 8 Conclusion Chapter 9 Coda Chapter 10 Index
Robin Truth Goodman is assistant professor of English at Florida State University. Kenneth J. Saltman is assistant professor in the Social and Cultural Studies in Education program at DePaul University.
'You are either with us or against us!' is a popular proclamation
these days, one largely without an explanation of who actually
profits from neo-liberal symbolic, cultural, and economic agendas.
Strange Love: How We Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Market
takes the issue of 'us' head on. Courageously, Truth Goodman and
Saltman reveal how neo-liberal markets cannot solve what they in
fact create, and that the possibilities of 'us' in any real
participatory democracy requires consciousness and not
coercion.
*Pepi Leistyna, author, Presence of Mind: Education and the
Politics of Deception and Defining and Designing
Multiculturalism*
Strange Love provides a remarkable multidisciplinary breadth and
depth of documentary research and charts important new
investigative and humanistic territory. It will be of value to
faculty, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates interested
in further research on educational corporatization and
globalization, especially within humanistic, aesthetic, ethical,
and cultural traditions.
*Teachers College Record*
Goodman and Saltman provide here a carefully researched piece of
work. Part film criticism, part popular culture, part social
commentary, part sociology, the book centers on the corporatization
of education and how it is the principle means through which
globalization is achieved.
*CHOICE*
The authors provide a remarkable multidisciplinary breadth and
depth of documentary research. Strange Love charts important new
investigative and humanistic territory among related works. It will
be of value to faculty, graduate students, and advanced
undergraduates interested in further research on educational
corporization and globalization, especially within humanistic,
aesthetic, ethical, and cultural traditions.
*Teachers College Record*
Part educational theory, part cultural studies, part investigative
journalism, this book judges the results of innovative corporate
initiatives in public education such as Knowledge Universe, Amoco's
iMPACT, the Pegasus Prize, as well as the educational impact of
some recent films. Strange Love is a thoroughly researched and
important book.
*Alphonso Lingis, author, The Community of Those Who Have Nothing
in Common*
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