Joel Spring: 26 books
Corporatism, Social Control, and Cultural Domination in Education: From the Radical Right to Globalization
The Selected Works of Joel Spring
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Starting with the 1972 publication of his seminal work, Education and the Rise of the Corporate State, Joel Spring has been documenting and analyzing the politics of knowledge and education. Throughout his work he has explored the attempts to use education to advance the economic and political interests...
The Ghosts of Autumn
A Season of Hunting Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
This is my cathedral. These are my meditations. I was raised Methodist, but this is my religion.”
The fields and woods and old orchards here are sacred ground. I feel the presence of my old friends. I am humbled in the face of the beauty of the place and experience the quiet only found...
The Universal Right to Education
Justification, Definition, and Guidelines
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
In this book, Joel Spring offers a powerful and closely reasoned justification and definition for the universal right to education--applicable to all cultures--as provided for in Article 26 of the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
One sixth of the world's population, nearly...
by Joel Spring
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
Joel Spring investigates the role of educational policy in the evolving global economy, and the consequences of school systems around the world adapting to meet the needs of international corporations. The new global model for education addresses problems of technological change, the quick exchange...
Education Networks
Power, Wealth, Cyberspace, and the Digital Mind
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Education Networks is a critical analysis of the emerging intersection among the global power elite, information and communication technology, and schools. Joel Spring documents and examines the economic and political interests and forces —including elite networks, the for-profit education industry,...
Educating the Consumer-citizen
A History of the Marriage of Schools, Advertising, and Media
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2003
In Educating the Consumer-Citizen: A History of the Marriage of Schools, Advertising, and Media, Joel Spring charts the rise of consumerism as the dominant American ideology of the 21st century. He documents and analyzes how, from the early 19th century through the present, the combined endeavors...
How Educational Ideologies Are Shaping Global Society
Intergovernmental Organizations, NGOs, and the Decline of the Nation-State
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
In this book Joel Spring explores three major international educational ideologies that are shaping global society: neo-liberal educational ideology, human rights education, and environmentalism.
Neo-liberal ideology reflects a rethinking of nationalist forms of education as the nation-state...
Global Impacts of the Western School Model
Corporatization, Alienation, Consumerism
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
In this timely analysis of the current state of global educational policies, Joel Spring focuses on the spread of the Western school model and its impact on creating an urban-consumer culture, increasing economic inequalities, contributing to environmental destruction and diminishing compassion and...
The Ultimate Guide to Kayak Fishing
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
A thorough introduction to an increasingly popular fishing sport.
Did you know that kayak fishing has shot up in popularity over the past few years? Americans take more than 38 million kayak fishing trips every year. While most outdoors enthusiasts think of kayaks simply as boats, there are...
A New Paradigm for Global School Systems
Education for a Long and Happy Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2007
This volume—a major new contribution to Joel Spring’s reportage and analysis of the intersection of global forces and education—offers a new paradigm for global school systems. Education for global economic competition is the prevailing goal of most national school systems. Spring argues that recent international studies by econom
Political Agendas for Education
From Make America Great Again to Stronger Together
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Following the epic, contentious 2016 presidential election, Joel Spring’s ongoing documentation and analysis of political agendas for education reflect the major political issues since 2012. Here he examines the 2016 education planks of the Republican, Democratic, Libertarian, and Green Parties,...
Pedagogies of Globalization
The Rise of the Educational Security State
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
In this ground-breaking book, Joel Spring examines globalization and its worldwide effects on education. A central thesis is that industrial-consumerism is the dominant paradigm in the integration of education and economic planning in modern economic security states.
In the twenty-first century,...
Globalization of Education
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Continuing Joel Spring’s reportage and analysis of the intersection of global forces and education, this text offers a comprehensive overview and synthesis of current research, theories, and models related to the topic. Written in his signature clear, narrative style, Spring introduces the processes,...
by Joel Spring
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Featuring current information and challenging perspectives on the latest issues and forces shaping the American educational system—with scholarship that is often cited as a primary source, Joel Spring introduces readers to the historical, political, social, and legal foundations of education and...
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