The Seduction of Common Sense
by Kumashiro, Kevin K.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-03-21
Publisher(s): Teachers College Pr
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Summary
Just in time for the 2008 elections, this title offers a powerful examination of current education policy initiatives as framed by the rhetoric of the political Right and Left.
Author Biography
Kevin K. Kumashiro is an associate professor of policy studies at the University of Illinois-Chicago, College of Education, and the founding director of the Center for Anti-Oppressive Education
Table of Contents
| Series Foreword | p. ix |
| Foreword | p. xiii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xvii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| "Common Sense" and Schooling | p. 3 |
| "Right," "Left," and Public Education | p. 5 |
| Attack on Public Education | p. 9 |
| Organizational Landscape of the Right | p. 12 |
| Current Initiatives to Undermine Public Education | p. 16 |
| Contradictions and Strange Bedfellows | p. 29 |
| The Power of Frames | p. 32 |
| "Traditional Family" and Core Values | p. 32 |
| "Free Enterprise" and Common Sense | p. 35 |
| "Beacon of Goodness" and Distraction | p. 38 |
| "Be Very Afraid" | p. 42 |
| Appropriation of Frames About "Safety" | p. 49 |
| The Trouble with Safety | p. 49 |
| The Institutionalization of Bias | p. 53 |
| The Christian Right and Youth | p. 57 |
| Appropriations of Four Frames | p. 60 |
| Failure to Reframe the "Achievement Gap" | p. 70 |
| Gaps in Achievement | p. 70 |
| The Demand to Assimilate | p. 74 |
| Purposes Behind the "Model Minority" | p. 78 |
| Framing Away Our Collective Responsibilities | p. 83 |
| Frames for a Broader Left | p. 86 |
| The Right to Be Different | p. 88 |
| Oppression Hurts Everyone | p. 90 |
| Multiple Human Rights | p. 94 |
| References | p. 99 |
| Index | p. 105 |
| About the Author | p. 110 |
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