Tangled Up in School: Politics, Space, Bodies, and Signs in the Educational Process

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Contents

Prefacexi

Introductionxiii

1 Adults at Elementary School1

	Politics and Power Shape the Spaces of Curriculum2
	Mr. Watts's Transformation of the Curriculum8
	Staffing10
	Teaching Defined at the Intersection of Theory and Organization12
	Shifting Meanings of the Term Whole Language16
	Parent Resistance17
	Thurber at the Intersection of City and Community Politics23
	Mr. Watts's Response to the Letter28
	Circuits and Fields30
	Legitimization Through Economic Discourse43

2 A Tangle of Cities, Corporations, and Kids46

	Industrial Decline and Economic Transformation46
	The Merger Fight48
	The New Century Council and Corporate-School Rhetorics51
	Putting It Into Practice60
	The Rebellion of the Teachers62
	Schoolwork for Exchange67
	Commodity Fetishism Versus the Fifth Grade69
	Crossed Circuits80

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Publication information: Book title: Tangled Up in School:Politics, Space, Bodies, and Signs in the Educational Process. Contributors: Jan Nespor - Author. Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Place of publication: Mahwah, NJ. Publication year: 1997. Page number: vii.

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