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“Selling Our Schools? Principals’ Views On Schoolhouse Commercialism And School-Business Interactions”, Abe Feuerstein
“Selling Our Schools? Principals’ Views On Schoolhouse Commercialism And School-Business Interactions”, Abe Feuerstein
Abe Feuerstein
Businesses and schools frequently interact in a variety of spheres. Much of the literature written during the 1980s on school-business interaction is positive and suggests that schools benefit from a corporate presence. More recently, the literature on schoolbusiness interaction has become critical and suggests that businesses sometimes exploit schools in these relationships. This study enriches this debate by examining the views of public school principals in Pennsylvania with regard to the involvement of corporations in public schools in the following spheres: sponsored events, exclusive agreements, incentive programs, marketing in school, sponsored educational materials, and direct sales and fund-raising. The findings …
Hyper-Rationalization Revisited, Abe Feuerstein
Hyper-Rationalization Revisited, Abe Feuerstein
Abe Feuerstein
Hyperrationalization in educational policy creates problems in the imposition of standards by centralized authorities and pursuit of efficiency through standardized tests, based on the assumption that education can be routinized and mechanized. A humanistic alternative is to make students the focus of educational policy and practice