It’s All about Learning: The Struggle in Choosing Traditional Public Education or Privatization

Jeff Swensson

doi:10.5771/9781475869415

Summary

It’s All About Learning: The Struggle in Choosing Traditional Public Education or Privatization is a reckoning with the contemporary struggle over choice about learning in public education. The future for learning depends on choice aligned with one of two major perspectives: traditional public education or privatization education. The profound implications of this struggle are too important to focus on gadgets, technology, and adult-centric intentions, also known as “chasing rabbits.” Instead, this book examines the purpose, intentions, and consequences of the perspectives battling for control of learning and teaching.

When this conflict is resolved, a choice for learning will emerge: how to think or what-to-think. Who will write the narrative for the history of the future of US public education that best serves all students and the democracy in which they live? A reckoning with the struggle over choice about learning is past due. This book makes it clear that the time has come for traditional public educators to bypass the marketplace of privatization education and prioritize student-centric learning in traditional US public education.

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Edition: 1/2023
Copyright Year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4758-6939-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4758-6941-5
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 176
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Prologue No access
Chapter 1 Toward the Purpose of US Public Education No access Pages 1 - 14
Chapter 2 Which Road for Public Education? No access Pages 15 - 24
Chapter 3 Arbiters of Choice No access Pages 25 - 30
Chapter 4 ‌‌‌‌‌Arbiters of Choice No access Pages 31 - 44
Chapter 5 Arbiters of Choice No access Pages 45 - 56
Chapter 6 Arbiters of Choice No access Pages 57 - 72
Chapter 7 Public Education No access Pages 73 - 82
Chapter 8 Public Dissonance or Public Things? No access Pages 83 - 94
Chapter 9 What Could Be More Simple t‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌han Educational Choice? No access Pages 95 - 106
Chapter 10 Choosing Disdain, Engineering Decline No access Pages 107 - 118
Chapter 11 Reciprocity Is Public Education No access Pages 119 - 126
Chapter 12 A Resource and a Professional Capability No access Pages 127 - 142
Chapter 13 A Future for Learning No access Pages 143 - 154
Epilogue No access Pages 155 - 156
References No access Pages 157 - 170
Index No access Pages 171 - 174
About the Author No access Pages 175 - 176