Handbook of Critical Approaches to Politics and Policy of Education

Kenneth J. Saltman is Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. His authored books include The Alienation of Fact: Digital Educational Privatization, AI, and the False Promise of Bodies and Numbers (MIT Press, 2022), The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance (University of Minnesota Press, 2018), The Politics of Education: A Critical Introduction, 2nd Edition (Routledge, 2018), and Scripted Bodies: Corporate Power, Smart Technologies, and the Undoing of Public Education (Routledge, 2016). Nicole Nguyen is Associate Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. She is author of Suspect Communities: Anti-Muslim Racism and the Domestic War on Terror (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) and A Curriculum of Fear: Homeland Security in US Public Schools (University of Minnesota Press, 2016).

Introduction: Routledge Handbook of Critical Approaches to Politics and Policy of Education; CULTURE AND POLITICS OF EDUCATION; 1: The Politics and Cultural Politics of Education; 2: The Centrality of Conscientization in Critical Pedagogy; 3: Democracy after Domination: Imagining Critical Education Beyond Capitalist Futures; 4: Rising Authoritarianism, Populism and the Challenge of Educational Leadership; 5: Critical Research Methodology: A Realist Approach; POLITICAL ECONOMY OF EDUCATION; 6: Political Economy, Neoliberalism, and Corporate School Reform; 7: The Political Economy of Global Education Policy; 8: "Innovative" Educational Finance: The Role of Financial Capital in Shaping Schooling; 9: The Political Economy of Immigration, Xenophobia, and Educational Language Policy; 10: Beyond the Neoliberal Crisis In Education: Educating For The Common Good; SUBJECTIVITY AND EDUCATION; 11: "That is Who "We" Are": The "Public Secret:" Racial Violence/White Supremacy, Public Policy and Public Education; 12: The Precarious Subject of Neoliberal Education: Resilient Life In The Catastrophic Conjuncture; 13: Building Transformative Justice Communities: Why abolitionist work in schools is, and must always be, feminist; SCHOOLING AND THE POLITICS OF DISASTER; 14: Beyond Pandemic Politics in the Age of Fascist Politics; 15: Contested Terrain: School Militarism and the Battle for Hearts and Minds; 16: Anthropocene, Education, and the Politics of Extinction; TECHNOLOGY; 17: Transforming the Extractive Politics of STEM Education and CTE; 18: EdTech, Market Logics, And Pedagogic Containment: Critical Pedagogies For a Critical Moment; 19: Confronting the Digital Leviathan in Education: On Cybernetic Pedagogy and Data-intensive Algorithmic Technologies; 20: Global Teacher Movements Contra EdTech: Taking on Inequality and Resisting Neoliberal Education Reforms in the Time of COVID