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Atasay, Engin; Delavan, Garrett – Journal of Education Policy, 2012
This paper is a theoretical effort to support but complicate critiques of disaster capitalism and neoliberal strategies to profit from public education. We put into conversation a discursive analysis following Michel Foucault and a spatial analysis following Henri Lefebvre that focus on monumentalized disasters. We argue that neoliberalism carries…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Privatization, Public Education, Natural Disasters
Watson, Renee – Rethinking Schools, 2010
As a teaching artist in public schools, the author is paired with classroom teachers to teach poetry and to give students an opportunity to experience their academic curriculum through the arts. At the beginning of the school year, she gave her students the on-going, yearlong assignment to watch the news, to pay attention. Knowing many of them…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Poetry
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King, Joyce E. – Harvard Educational Review, 2011
In this essay, Joyce King attempts to interrupt the calculus of human (un)worthiness and to repair the collective cultural amnesia that are legacies of slavery and that make it easy--hegemonically and dysconsciously--for the public to accept myths and media reports, such as those about the depravity of survivors of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans…
Descriptors: Black Studies, Slavery, Foreign Countries, Cultural Background