Miseducating for the global economy : how corporate power damages education and subverts students' futures /

Coles, Gerald,

Miseducating for the global economy : how corporate power damages education and subverts students' futures / by Gerald Coles. - 256 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents -- Introduction -- Educating for the global economy -- The flat world and the education needed for it -- The U.S. economy, schooling, and knowledge -- Corporate 'support' of schooling and protecting corporations -- Constricting the curriculum -- U.S. capitalism's pretense of supporting education for the global economy -- Fighting back.

9789387496019 (pbk) 9781583676912 (hardcover)

2018017845


Education--Economic aspects--United States.
Education--Aims and objectives--United States.
Education and globalization.

LC66 / .C65 2018

379.73 COL / 017766

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