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Critical Social Issues in American Education: Democracy and Meaning in a Globalizing World (Chap. 9 "The Littleton Tragedy")
by David E. Purpel, H. Svi Shapiro. 504 pgs.

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Textbook anthology for social foundations and curriculum theory courses situates issues of education in the critical context of the major political, economic, cultural, and environmental crisis of the U.S. and the global community; provides a focus and conceptual framework for thinking about these issues.

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Preface

Introduction

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I: Social Justice and Democracy: Unmet Promises

1: For Richer

2: Funding Accountability: States, Courts, and Public Responsibility

Notes

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3: Democracy's High School? Social Change and American Secondary Education in the Post-Conant Era

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4: Creating New Inequalities: Contradictions of Reform

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5: Illusions of Progress: Business as Usual

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6: Higher Education as a Public Good

II: Schools for Sale: Consumerism, Corporate Culture, and Public Education

7: Profits Without People

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8: Kids for Sale: Corporate Culture and the Challenge of Public Schooling

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9: The Littleton Tragedy

10: Commercial Culture and the Assault on Children's Character

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11: Goals 2000: the Triumph of Vulgarity and the Legitimation of Social Injustice

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III: Marginality and Difference: the Fractured Community

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12: Becoming Educated: a Journey of Alienation or Integration?

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13: English-Only Triumphs, but the Costs Are High

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14: What About the Boys?

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15: Race and the Achievement Gap

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16: What Matthew Shepard Would Tell Us: Gay and Lesbian Issues in Education

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17: A Parent's Dilemma: Public Vs. Jewish Education

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IV: Critique and Hope: Moral and Spiritual Perspectives on Education

18: From Local Control to Government and Corporate Takeover of School Curriculum: the No Child Left Behind Act and the Reading First Program

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19: Public School Reform: the Mismeasure of Education

20: Care and Moral Education

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21: Education and Spirituality

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22: The Spiritual Transformation of Education

23: Social Justice, Curriculum, and Spirituality

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V: Globalization and Education: the 21st-Century Challenge

24: Threats and Temps

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25: Education and the Dilemmas of Modernism: Towards an Ecozoic Vision

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26: Identity in the Globalizing World

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27: The Transformation of Political Community: Rethinking Democracy in the Context of Globalization

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28: Lessons of September 11: What Should Schools Teach?

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Blind-Sided: Homicide Where it Is Least Expected (Chap. 7 "Homicide by Children, Part II: Columbine")
by Gregory K. Moffatt. 256 pgs.

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While print and broadcast media are filled every day with homicide accounts, the general public seems most disturbed by crimes attributed to individuals who otherwise seem "normal." Murders by those perceived to be historically non-violent often appear to erupt with no warning whatsoever. Moffatt argues that certain key predictors of a predisposition to violence are usually present. Citing case studies of workplace, school, and domestic homicides, he debunks the myth that these murders happen "out of the blue." He also includes valuable information on predicting and preventing future tragedies.

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1: Homicide--Its Many Forms

2: Homicide and Mental Illness

3: Homicide in the Workplace

4: Homicide at Home: Domestic Violence

5: Stalking

6: Homicide by Children, Part I

7: Homicicle by Children, Part II: Columbine

8: Assessment of Risk for Homicide

9: Intervention and Prevention of Homicide

10: Seven Mistakes That Can Cost People Their Lives

11: Conclusions

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Index

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Musings in the Wake of Columbine - What Can Schools Do?, in Phi Delta Kappan
by Mary Anne Raywid, Libby Oshiyama. 6 pgs.

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After Columbine: How People Mourn Sudden Death, in Social Work
by Jonathan D. Fast. 7 pgs.

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Coping with Public Tragedy (Chap. 4 "Looking Back at Columbine")
by Kenneth J. Doka, Marcia Lattanzi-Licht. 314 pgs.

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Developed in conjunction with the Hospice Foundation of America's 10th annual tele-conference, Living with Grief: Coping with Public Tragedy examines our varied responses to public tragedy, techniques available to cope with these events, and the role of the hospice in public tragedies. The essays included look at factors that define a public tragedy and offer insight and advice to professionals as they help those coping with loss. Case examples include Sherry Schachter's experience at Ground Zero, a consideration of the devastation in Florida caused by Hurricane Andrew in 1992, and the shootings at Columbine High School in 1999.

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Foreword

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Part I: Dimensions of Public Tragedy

Chapter 1: What Makes a Tragedy Public?

Chapter 2: 9/11: a Grief Therapist's Journal

Chapter 3: Hurricane Andrew

Chapter 4: Looking Back at Columbine

Chapter 5: When a Public Figure Dies

Part II: Responses to Public Tragedy

Chapter 6: Loss, Grief, and Trauma in Public Tragedy

Chapter 7: Effects of Public Tragedy on First Responders

Chapter 8: Public Grief and the News Media

Chapter 9: Different Faiths, Different Perceptions of Public Tragedy

Chapter 10: Funeral Directors and Public Tragedy

Part III: Coping with Public Tragedy

Chapter 11: Critical Incident Stress Management and Other Crisis Counseling Approaches

Chapter 12: Talking to Children About Terrorism

Chapter 13: Schools, Children and Public Tragedy

Chapter 14: Meaning Making in the Wake of Public Tragedy

Chapter 15: Memorialization, Ritual, and Public Tragedy

Chapter 16: A Healing Ritual at Yankee Stadium

Chapter 17: Public Tragedy and the Arts

Chapter 18: Victim Advocacy in the Aftermath of Tragedy

Chapter 19: Lessons from Combat Veterans

Chapter 20: Workplace Interventions

Chapter 21: Public Tragedy and Complicated Mourning

Part IV: The Role of Hospice in Public Tragedy

Chapter 22: Collaborating with Relief Agencies: a Guide for Hospice

Chapter 23: Hospice: a Resource in Community Tragedies

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Education as Enforcement: The Militarization and Corporatization of Schools (Chap. 10 "Post-Columbine Reflections on Youth Violence (Trans)National Movement")
by David A. Gabbard, Kenneth J. Saltman. 332 pgs.

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Education as Enforcement locates a rising culture of militarism found not only in US popular culture, civil society and foreign policy but also in educational policy and practices. Considering the rise of school security apparatus, accountability and standards movements, privatization and commercialization, this book is the first of its kind to highlight the intersections between militarization and corporatization. This volume brings together noted scholars in education to explore and challenge the ways that the imperatives of corporate globalization are educating citizens through curriculum, policy and popular culture in the virtues of authoritarianism while turning some schools into boardrooms and others into barracks and prisons. With the shadow of the No Child Left Behind Act descending over us, Education as Enforcement points to the need for citizens to become more actively involved in leading schools, teachers and children out of this educational Dark Age.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Function of Schools

Chapter 2: Rivers of Fire

Chapter 3: Education is Enforcement!

Chapter 4: Cracking Down

Chapter 5: Facing Oppression

Chapter 6: Freedom for Some, Discipline for “others”

Chapter 7: Forceful Hegemony

Chapter 8: The Proliferation of Jrotc

Chapter 9: Education for War in Israel

Chapter 10: Introduction to Chapter 10

Chapter 10: Post-Columbine Reflections on Youth Violence as a (Trans)National Movement

Chapter 11: Imprisoning Minds

Chapter 12: Taking Command

Chapter 13: Commentary on the Rhetoric of Reform

Chapter 14: Controlling Images

Chapter 15: Dick Lit

Chapter 16: Virtuous War

Chapter 17: We Were Soldiers

Chapter 18: The Politics of Compulsory Patriotism

Chapter 19: Critical Revolutionary Pedagogy at Ground Zero

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From Horror to Healing: How Columbine Impacted Student Perspectives, in Reclaiming Children and Youth
by Suzanne Tochterman. 5 pgs.

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Columbine Revisited, in Curriculum Administrator
by Judith Harkham Semas. 7 pgs.

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Colorado after Columbine: The Gun Debate, in State Legislatures
by Mike Soraghan. 8 pgs.

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Violence Affecting School Employees, in Education
by Kristen Edwards, Thomas Greene, Jack N. Kondrasuk, Aradhana Nayak-Rhodes, Jacqueline Waggoner. 9 pgs.

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Reclaiming Our Children: A Healing Solution for a Nation in Crisis (Chap. 1 "Defining Moments for the Future of Our Children")
by Peter R. Breggin. 342 pgs.

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From recasting our attitudes as parents to restructuring class sizes, limiting homework and fostering honest dialog about the pressures in our society, Reclaiming Our Children shows us the way to profound and lasting peace with and among our children. Beginning with a dramatic shift in adult priorities that places children at the center of our lives, Peter Breggin demonstrates how we can dedicate ourselves to creating meaningful, loving, disciplined, and inspiring relationships with all of our children.

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1: Defining Moments for the Future of Our Children

2: Psychiatry and the Government React to Our Children's Violence

3: Identifying the Real Risks to Our Children's Well-Being

4: Transforming Ourselves to Meet Our Children's Needs

5: Making Peace with Our Warrior Children

6: Child Monsters? Or Hurt Children with Stories to Tell?

7: Are Psychiatric Drugs Making Our Children Psychotic and Violent?

8: Putting an End to School Slavery

9: Putting an End to Scapegoating in School

10: Creating Good Schools

11: Creating Sanctuary in Our Families

12: Helping Our Most Disturbed and Violent Children--Lessons for Helping All Our Children

13: Devoting Ourselves to Children

Appendix A: Biography of Peter R. Breggin, M.D.

Appendix B: The International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology

Appendix C: Ethical Human Sciences and Services: An International Journal of Critical Inquiry

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