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By Information Age Publishing,Jessica A. Heybach,Eric C. Sheffield

Dystopia and schooling: Insights into thought, Praxis, and coverage in an age of Utopia long gone mistaken presents an as-of-yet unexplored severe viewpoint for interpreting modern academic thought, praxis, and coverage with specific connection with the present kingdom of dehumanizing and sometimes oppressive coverage and practices that experience come to demarcate the period of NCLB and RTT. The authors during this assortment hire dystopian topics present in literature, movie, visible paintings, and games because the lens for that severe inquiry. As such Dystopia and schooling: Insights into conception, Praxis, and coverage is an important contribution to the philosophical/critical culture in academic scholarship. it's specifically invaluable as the inquiry undertaken is from a brand new perspective—one that might expand the serious culture right into a but unexplored arena.

Given the tutorial weather tested by way of NCLB and RTT, this assortment is mainly vital to the continuing serious research of such coverage mandates. there's additionally a considerably vital timeliness to this publication given NCLB’s utopian expectation of common educational skillability between American schoolchildren by means of the yr 2014: as educators race to accomplish any such noble but naïve target, this choice of essays examines the tutorial setting that has been enacted to accomplish such ends, and describes our present nation as a utopia-gone wrong.

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