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Schooling in America: how neoliberal reform efforts purposefully undermine humanist and critical pedagogies in public schools

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Public schools are a principal force in the creation of a fabricated presentation of a “melting pot” of cultures to create the “American” culture. Stories of immigration and the “melting pot” are told in lessons and all children find themselves in public schools. This gives the impression that diversity is valued and all Americans are given the same opportunities for “success” when, in fact, this is not the case. Most importantly in the last decades public schools have been used preeminently to cultivate an efficient workforce. After World War II, much advancement had been made in the fight for equitable education, and more opportunities were readied; however, positive prospects for the evolution of a political economy for the people through schooling have waned. Neoliberal educational reform policies have instead brought only further advantages for the few, rather than the majority, since the 1970s. Blame and fault have been assigned exclusively to those who do not succeed, even though the system has been set up to work against the vast majority of Americans. The consequences of the rise of neoliberal politics have been fatal for the social, political, and economic structures of the United States and for positive educational reforms. The results of neoliberal policies have been unfavorable for the majority of citizens. A central question to be addressed in this study is not only how to begin to eradicate neoliberal policies from American public schools, but also how we can develop social democracies that prioritize collective interests over individual ambitions and nurture a global environment ready for opposition. To combat looming dangers on the horizon that materializes from these damaging effects of accusative individualism and self-centered ways of thinking which are now taught in an increasing number of American schools.
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dumas-01393461 , version 1 (07-11-2016)

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Nicole Chickering. Schooling in America: how neoliberal reform efforts purposefully undermine humanist and critical pedagogies in public schools. Literature. 2016. ⟨dumas-01393461⟩
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