The Corporate Assault on Youth: Commercialism, Exploitation, and the End of Innocence (44) (Adolescent Cultures, School & Society) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1433100843 ISBN 13: 9781433100840

Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2008

Synopsis

The Corporate Assault on Youth examines childhood as a social construction increasingly influenced by corporations and commercialism. Through case studies, critical analysis, and historical/philosophical research, the essays collected here expose the degree to which children are unwitting targets of marketing. With topics ranging from the presence of media branding in schools and school supplies to the subtler ways in which the public education system is influenced by corporate ideologies and purposes, this book draws much-needed attention to how educators, administrators, policymakers, parents, and children can become aware of, and counterbalance, the effects of the commercialism that is overwhelming students' understanding of the world and their place within it.

About this title

About the Author:

The Editor: Deron Boyles is Professor of Philosophy of Education in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at Georgia State University. His research interests include school-corporate nexes, epistemology, pragmatism and the philosophy of John Dewey, and critical pedagogy. His work has been published in such journals as Philosophy of Education, Social Epistemology, Journal of Thought, Philosophical Studies in Education, Educational Foundations, History of Education Quarterly, Educational Studies, and Educational Theory. His first book, American Education and Corporations: The Free Market Goes to School won the Critics' Choice Award from the American Educational Studies Association. Schools or Markets?: Commercialism, Privatization, and School-Business Partnerships, his second book, is an edited volume highlighting young scholars and their work on corporatism. He is also co-author, with Benjamin Baez, of The Politics of Inquiry: Education Research and the "Culture of Science". Boyles received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University and is a Fellow in the Philosophy of Education Society and the John Dewey Society.

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1433100843
• ISBN 13: 9781433100840
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248
• Editor: Boyles Deron