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Author Senese, Guy B.

Title Simulation, spectacle, and the ironies of education reform / Guy Senese with Ralph Page ; foreword by Henry A. Giroux.

Imprint Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 1995.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Reitz  371.2 Se56s, 1995    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xiv, 139 p. ; 21 cm.
Series Critical studies in education and culture series, 1064-8615
Critical studies in education and culture series. 1064-8615
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [127]-131) and index.
Contents Foreword / Henry A. Giroux -- Introduction : education reform and the law of the conservation of suffering -- Away from goodness : the Challenger disaster and the irony of a nation at risk -- KO in twelve : boxing, schooling, and rackets as theory and metaphor -- Work is for saps : a new Hawthorne effect and the value of the rising tide of mediocrity -- And a pedagogy from the surreal -- Conclusion : symbols of emancipation and the cargo cult of education reform.
Note 35902004207516 c.1 Special Collec. Reitz. Gift of Charles Reitz.
Subject Educational change -- United States -- Case studies.
Education -- Aims and objectives -- United States -- Case studies.
Educational anthropology -- United States -- Case studies.
Added Author Page, Ralph (Ralph Cornell)
ISBN 0897894448 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0897894022 (alk. paper)
9780897894029 (alk. paper)
9780897894449 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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