School Commercialism

Informationen zum Autor Alex Molnar is the founder of the Commercialism in Education Research Unit, the only research unit in the world dedicated exclusively to school commercialism. An expert on market-oriented school reforms such as private school vouchers, for-profit schools, and charter schools, he is author of four books and professor and director of the Education Policy Studies Laboratory at Arizona State University. Klappentext Pizza Hut's Book It! program rewards students with pizza for meeting their reading goals. Toys "R" Us paid a Kansas school five dollars for each student who took its toy survey. Cisco Systems donated internet access to a California elementary school, asking in return for the school choir to sing the company's praises while wearing Cisco t-shirts.Kids today face a barrage of corporate messages in the classroom. In "School Commercialism," education expert Alex Molnar traces marketing in American schools over the last twenty-five years, raising serious questions about the role of private corporations in public education. Since the 1990s, Molnar argues, commercial activities have shaped the structure of the school day, influenced the curriculum, and determined whether children have access to computers and other technologies. He argues convincingly against advertisers' assertion that their contributions are a win-win proposition for cash-strapped schools and image-conscious companies.From the marketing of unhealthy foods to privatizing reforms such as the Edison Schools and Knowledge Universe, "School" "Commercialism" tracks trends that are more pervasive than many parents realize and shows how we might recapture schools to better serve the public interest. Zusammenfassung Commercial activity in schools reflects the consumerist society at large. This book reviews the historical development of this situation and questions whether corporate marketing and profit-making belong in an educational setting. It offers the marketer's and the educationalist's perspectives for evaluation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series Editor's Introduction1. Every Child a Consumer2. The Sky's the Limit: Trends in Schoolhouse Marketing since 19903. Let Them Eat Hamburgers: Using Schools to Promote Illness4. Controlling the Masses or Liberating Them? Edward Bernays and John Dewey Considered5. Whittle or Virtually Nothing: The Emergence of Edison Schools and Knowledge Universe6. Futures Trading: Buying and Selling Education in the Global Marketplace...

Autorentext

Alex Molnar is the founder of the Commercialism in Education Research Unit, the only research unit in the world dedicated exclusively to school commercialism. An expert on market-oriented school reforms such as private school vouchers, for-profit schools, and charter schools, he is author of four books and professor and director of the Education Policy Studies Laboratory at Arizona State University.

Klappentext

Pizza Hut's Book It! program rewards students with pizza for meeting their reading goals. Toys "R" Us paid a Kansas school five dollars for each student who took its toy survey. Cisco Systems donated internet access to a California elementary school, asking in return for the school choir to sing the company's praises while wearing Cisco t-shirts.
Kids today face a barrage of corporate messages in the classroom. In "School Commercialism," education expert Alex Molnar traces marketing in American schools over the last twenty-five years, raising serious questions about the role of private corporations in public education. Since the 1990s, Molnar argues, commercial activities have shaped the structure of the school day, influenced the curriculum, and determined whether children have access to computers and other technologies. He argues convincingly against advertisers' assertion that their contributions are a win-win proposition for cash-strapped schools and image-conscious companies.
From the marketing of unhealthy foods to privatizing reforms such as the Edison Schools and Knowledge Universe, "School" "Commercialism" tracks trends that are more pervasive than many parents realize and shows how we might recapture schools to better serve the public interest.

Zusammenfassung
Commercial activity in schools reflects the consumerist society at large. This book reviews the historical development of this situation and questions whether corporate marketing and profit-making belong in an educational setting. It offers the marketer's and the educationalist's perspectives for evaluation.

Inhalt

Series Editor's Introduction1. Every Child a Consumer2. The Sky's the Limit: Trends in Schoolhouse Marketing since 19903. Let Them Eat Hamburgers: Using Schools to Promote Illness4. Controlling the Masses or Liberating Them? Edward Bernays and John Dewey Considered5. Whittle or Virtually Nothing: The Emergence of Edison Schools and Knowledge Universe6. Futures Trading: Buying and Selling Education in the Global Marketplace