Education as Enforcement

The first volume to focus on the intersections of militarization, corporations, and education, Education as Enforcement exposed the many ways in which schooling has become a means through which the expansion of global corporate power is enforced. Since publication of the first edition, these trends have increased to disturbing levels as a result of the extensive militarization of civil society, the implosion of the neoconservative movement, and the financial meltdown that radically called into question the basic assumptions undergirding neoliberal ideology. An understanding of the enforcement of these corporate economic imperatives remains essential to a critical discussion of related militarized trends in schools, whether through accountability and standards, school security, or other discipline-based reforms.

Education as Enforcement, Second Edition elaborates upon the central arguments of the first edition and updates readers on how recent events have reinforced their continued original relevance. In addition to substantive updates to several original chapters, this second edition includes a new foreword by Henry Giroux, a new introduction, and four new chapters that reveal the most contemporary expressions of the militarization and corporatization of education. New topics covered in this collection include zero-tolerance, foreign and second language instruction in the post-9/11 context, the rise of single-sex classrooms, and the intersection of the militarization and corporatization of schools under the Obama administration.

Kenneth J. Saltman is Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Research at DePaul University.

David A. Gabbard is Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at East Carolina University.