ABSTRACT
Schooling and the Politics of Disaster is the first volume to address how disaster is being used for a radical social and economic reengineering of education. From the natural disasters of the Asian tsunami and the hurricanes in the Gulf Coast, to the human-made disasters in Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti, Sudan, Indonesia, the United States and around the globe, disaster is increasingly shaping policy and politics. This groundbreaking collection explores how education policy is being reshaped by disaster politics. Noted scholars in education and sociology tackle issues as far-ranging as No Child Left Behind, the War on Terror, Hurricane Katrina, the making of educational funding crises in the US, and the Iraq War to bring to light a disturbing new phenonmemon in educational policy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|78 pages
Theorizing the Politics of Disaster
chapter 2|28 pages
Hurricane Katrina and the Politics of Disposability
chapter 4|14 pages
Feasting on Disaster
part II|106 pages
Disaster and Educational Policy