Miseducating for the Global Economy: How Corporate Power Damages Education and Subverts Students’ Futures
256 pp, $24 pbk, ISBN 978-1-58367-690-5
By Gerald Coles
Reviewed by Thomas Klikauer for Australian Universities’ Review, vol. 61, no. 2
“Science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM) are skills our students and we are all supposed to have to succeed in the global economy. This has been the mantra for quite some time. Gerald Coles’ Miseducating for the Global Economy takes a critical look at what we are told by people who hardly ever enter a classroom but are called educational experts or educational policy makers, and politicians, the corporate media, and state officials… And then there are right-wing think tanks, CEOs, businesspeople, and rafts of capitalism’s little helpers….”
Read the review at Australian Universities’ Review
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