Bloomsbury Academic History of Education for the Many, A: From Colonization and Slavery to the Decline of US Imperialism (Radical Politics and Education)

Product Description This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.A History of Education for the Many offers a window into the history of US education that challenges long held beliefs that the historical development of education reflects either the flourishing of democracy, or a ruling class project designed to reproduce structural inequalities. While it has more in common with texts that celebrate the agency of poor and oppressed peoples efforts at challenging unjust educational policies, the book is unique in that it looks to the global balances of forces as the primary factor shaping the history of US education. In a country notorious for educating its people with an inability to see beyond its own borders A History of Education for the Many offers a timely corrective. Drawing on Marxs dialectic combined with W.E.B. Du Bois challenge to 19th-century historians that dismissed the role of the enslaved in ending slavery and bringing forth all progressive reforms in the South, Curry Malott is thus able to demonstrate how the mighty agency of the worlds poor and oppressed have forced the hand of US imperialists in not only foreign policy, but in domestic education policy. As US imperialism declines in the 21st century, Malott points optimistically and realistically toward a history of education for the many. Review "What are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? A History of Education for the Many shines a clarifying light on the fundamental questions haunting the 21st century. Curry Malott provides a critical tool to make an honest assessment of the past, to fully engage the present, and to collectively fight for a world that should be and could be, but is not yet." --William Ayers, formerly Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA"Educators! This title should be at the top of our reading list. Malott's work enables teachers and students to understand the historical development of education within the contours of the capitalist state and as a location of resistance. The clear structure and well-researched information and arguments make it a crucial and accessible book for all educators looking to change the world." --Nathalie Hrizi, Public School Educator and Editor of the Breaking the Chains magazine, USA About the Author Curry Malott is Assiociate Professor of Educational Foundations & Policy Studies at West Chester University, USA.