Kenneth J Saltman
Biographic Data
| ID | 140535 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth J Saltman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth J |
| FAMILY NAME | Saltman |
| SIGNATURE | SALTMAN K J |
| AFFILIATIONS | DePaul University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6080-1625 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Beyond DEI and the culture war: Liberal technocracy, Maga authoritarianism, and the rentier order in U.S. schooling
This article argues that the dominant conflict over schooling in the United States, often framed as a struggle between liberal inclusion and MAGA exclusion, conceals a deeper convergence. Liberal technocracy and MAGA authoritarianism appear opposed, yet both depoliticize education by displacing democratic struggle over power, property, and social reproduction. The article contends that liberal defenses of public schooling, DEI, expertise, and the…
AI Schools and the New Child Labor
This Element analyzes the expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) in schooling as the emergence of a new form of child labor.The first section theorizes digital educational privatization, demonstrating how AI platforms extract value from student activity by converting learning into data production, extending standards and accountability reforms, deskilling teachers, and normalizing surveillance.The second section examines the rise of AI schools…
From inevitable disaster to Ineradicable possibility: Critical pedagogies of ecocide, educational privatization, and new technology
From climate disaster to the specter of nuclear annihilation to the rise of fascism and destruction of democracy to the advent of AI and other potentially destructive technologies, a number of material threats are matched by symbolic threats that undermine the capacities of people to respond. The war on public and critical education and the public sphere, the erosion of investigative journalism, ideologies of cynicism, and the crises of critical …
Alienation of Fact: Digital Educational Privatization, AI, and the False Promise of Bodies and Numbers
Corporate schooling meets corporate media: Standards, testing, and technophilia
Educational publishing corporations1 and media corporations in the United States have been converging, especially through the promotion of standardization, testing, and for-profit educational techn
Scripted Bodies: Corporate Power, Smart Technologies, and the Undoing of Public Education
From drugging kids into attention and reviving behaviorism to biometric measurements of teaching and learning Scripted Bodies exposes a brave new world of education in the age of repression. Scripted Bodies examines how corporeal control has expanded in education, how it impacts the mind and thinking, and the ways that new technologies are integral to the expansion of control. Scripted Bodies contends that this rise in repression must be understo…
Neoliberalism, Education, and Terrorism: Contemporary Dialogues
Capitalizing on Disaster: Taking and Breaking Public Schools
Breaking new ground in studies of business involvement in schooling, Capitalizing on Disaster dissects the most powerful educational reforms and highlights their relationship to the rise of powerful think tanks and business groups. Over the past several decades, there has been a strong movement to privatize public schooling through business ventures. At the beginning of the millennium, this privatization project looked moribund as both the Edison…
Learning from the neo-liberal movement: Towards a global justice education movement
This commentary suggests that a countermovement for educational and social justice must learn from the dominant global neo-liberal movement and its successes in creating institutions and knowledge-making processes and networks. Local struggles for educational justice are important, but they need to be linked to a broader educational justice movement. Such a movement itself has to be seen as part of a struggle for genuine democracy
Neoliberalism and Corporate School Reform: “Failure” and “Creative Destruction”
In the United States, corporate school reform or neoliberal educational restructuring has overtaken educational policy, practice, curriculum, and nearly all aspects of educational reform. Although
Democratic Education Requires Rejecting the New Corporate Two-Tiered School System
The Gift of Education: Public Education and Venture Philanthropy
This is a cutting edge book that not only maps and criticizes venture philanthropy but also offers a new and different way of conceptualizing public education in response to the neoliberal climate aff
Obama's Betrayal of Public Education? Arne Duncan and the Corporate Model of Schooling
This article criticizes Obama's appointment of Arne Duncan as U.S. Secretary of Education suggesting that it represents a corporate and penal model of school reform. The authors contend that Duncan's record as 'CEO' of the Chicago Public Schools represents the implementation of educational policies and pedagogical approaches antithetical to the democratic values of public and critical education
Schooling and the Politics of Disaster
Creative Associates International: Corporate Education and “Democracy Promotion” in Iraq
The Right-Wing Attack on Critical and Public Education in the United States: From Neoliberalism to Neoconservativism
This article discusses how neoliberal and neoconservative ideologies, policies, and political projects inform the changing nature of educational privatization efforts by the right wing. It contends that these projects, which are global in nature, threaten the development of forms of education conducive to the expansion of democratic social relations. The author argues that the struggle for critical public education could not be more necessary and…
The Strong Arm of the Law
The Strong Arm of the Law' seeks to explain how the identification with military power that is produced through corporate mass mediated spectacles such as bodybuilding threatens democratic identifications. What is more, the militarized body aims at ever-greater control over the physical world yet results only in evergreater estrangement from it. The article begins by illustrating the martial dimensions of the bodybuilder's body. Then, it reveals …
Junk-King Education
The author examines the political and pedagogical implications of the rise of the education conglomerate by focusing on Michael Milken's Knowledge Universe. The discussion includes the increasing corporate control over knowledge production in both education and mass media exploring effects in varied fields including child care, online education, and entertainment
Rivers of Fire: Amoco's iMPACT on Education and Other Corporate Incursions
Beyond Bedsheets and Burning Crosses
Dancing With Bigotry
Neoliberalism and Corporate School Reform: “Failure” and “Creative Destruction”
In the United States, corporate school reform or neoliberal educational restructuring has overtaken educational policy, practice, curriculum, and nearly all aspects of educational reform. Although
Scripted Bodies: Corporate Power, Smart Technologies, and the Undoing of Public Education
From drugging kids into attention and reviving behaviorism to biometric measurements of teaching and learning Scripted Bodies exposes a brave new world of education in the age of repression. Scripted Bodies examines how corporeal control has expanded in education, how it impacts the mind and thinking, and the ways that new technologies are integral to the expansion of control. Scripted Bodies contends that this rise in repression must be understo…
Obama's Betrayal of Public Education? Arne Duncan and the Corporate Model of Schooling
This article criticizes Obama's appointment of Arne Duncan as U.S. Secretary of Education suggesting that it represents a corporate and penal model of school reform. The authors contend that Duncan's record as 'CEO' of the Chicago Public Schools represents the implementation of educational policies and pedagogical approaches antithetical to the democratic values of public and critical education
Corporate schooling meets corporate media: Standards, testing, and technophilia
Educational publishing corporations1 and media corporations in the United States have been converging, especially through the promotion of standardization, testing, and for-profit educational techn
Learning from the neo-liberal movement: Towards a global justice education movement
This commentary suggests that a countermovement for educational and social justice must learn from the dominant global neo-liberal movement and its successes in creating institutions and knowledge-making processes and networks. Local struggles for educational justice are important, but they need to be linked to a broader educational justice movement. Such a movement itself has to be seen as part of a struggle for genuine democracy
Creative Associates International: Corporate Education and “Democracy Promotion” in Iraq
The Right-Wing Attack on Critical and Public Education in the United States: From Neoliberalism to Neoconservativism
This article discusses how neoliberal and neoconservative ideologies, policies, and political projects inform the changing nature of educational privatization efforts by the right wing. It contends that these projects, which are global in nature, threaten the development of forms of education conducive to the expansion of democratic social relations. The author argues that the struggle for critical public education could not be more necessary and…
The Strong Arm of the Law
The Strong Arm of the Law' seeks to explain how the identification with military power that is produced through corporate mass mediated spectacles such as bodybuilding threatens democratic identifications. What is more, the militarized body aims at ever-greater control over the physical world yet results only in evergreater estrangement from it. The article begins by illustrating the martial dimensions of the bodybuilder's body. Then, it reveals …
Junk-King Education
The author examines the political and pedagogical implications of the rise of the education conglomerate by focusing on Michael Milken's Knowledge Universe. The discussion includes the increasing corporate control over knowledge production in both education and mass media exploring effects in varied fields including child care, online education, and entertainment
Rivers of Fire: Amoco's iMPACT on Education and Other Corporate Incursions
Rivers of Fire: Amoco's iMPACT on Education and Other Corporate Incursions
Beyond Bedsheets and Burning Crosses
Dancing With Bigotry
Junk-King Education
The author examines the political and pedagogical implications of the rise of the education conglomerate by focusing on Michael Milken's Knowledge Universe. The discussion includes the increasing corporate control over knowledge production in both education and mass media exploring effects in varied fields including child care, online education, and entertainment
The Strong Arm of the Law
The Strong Arm of the Law' seeks to explain how the identification with military power that is produced through corporate mass mediated spectacles such as bodybuilding threatens democratic identifications. What is more, the militarized body aims at ever-greater control over the physical world yet results only in evergreater estrangement from it. The article begins by illustrating the martial dimensions of the bodybuilder's body. Then, it reveals …
Creative Associates International: Corporate Education and “Democracy Promotion” in Iraq
The Right-Wing Attack on Critical and Public Education in the United States: From Neoliberalism to Neoconservativism
This article discusses how neoliberal and neoconservative ideologies, policies, and political projects inform the changing nature of educational privatization efforts by the right wing. It contends that these projects, which are global in nature, threaten the development of forms of education conducive to the expansion of democratic social relations. The author argues that the struggle for critical public education could not be more necessary and…
Schooling and the Politics of Disaster
Obama's Betrayal of Public Education? Arne Duncan and the Corporate Model of Schooling
This article criticizes Obama's appointment of Arne Duncan as U.S. Secretary of Education suggesting that it represents a corporate and penal model of school reform. The authors contend that Duncan's record as 'CEO' of the Chicago Public Schools represents the implementation of educational policies and pedagogical approaches antithetical to the democratic values of public and critical education
The Gift of Education: Public Education and Venture Philanthropy
This is a cutting edge book that not only maps and criticizes venture philanthropy but also offers a new and different way of conceptualizing public education in response to the neoliberal climate aff
Democratic Education Requires Rejecting the New Corporate Two-Tiered School System
Neoliberalism and Corporate School Reform: “Failure” and “Creative Destruction”
In the United States, corporate school reform or neoliberal educational restructuring has overtaken educational policy, practice, curriculum, and nearly all aspects of educational reform. Although
Neoliberalism, Education, and Terrorism: Contemporary Dialogues
Capitalizing on Disaster: Taking and Breaking Public Schools
Breaking new ground in studies of business involvement in schooling, Capitalizing on Disaster dissects the most powerful educational reforms and highlights their relationship to the rise of powerful think tanks and business groups. Over the past several decades, there has been a strong movement to privatize public schooling through business ventures. At the beginning of the millennium, this privatization project looked moribund as both the Edison…
Learning from the neo-liberal movement: Towards a global justice education movement
This commentary suggests that a countermovement for educational and social justice must learn from the dominant global neo-liberal movement and its successes in creating institutions and knowledge-making processes and networks. Local struggles for educational justice are important, but they need to be linked to a broader educational justice movement. Such a movement itself has to be seen as part of a struggle for genuine democracy
Corporate schooling meets corporate media: Standards, testing, and technophilia
Educational publishing corporations1 and media corporations in the United States have been converging, especially through the promotion of standardization, testing, and for-profit educational techn
Scripted Bodies: Corporate Power, Smart Technologies, and the Undoing of Public Education
From drugging kids into attention and reviving behaviorism to biometric measurements of teaching and learning Scripted Bodies exposes a brave new world of education in the age of repression. Scripted Bodies examines how corporeal control has expanded in education, how it impacts the mind and thinking, and the ways that new technologies are integral to the expansion of control. Scripted Bodies contends that this rise in repression must be understo…
Alienation of Fact: Digital Educational Privatization, AI, and the False Promise of Bodies and Numbers
From inevitable disaster to Ineradicable possibility: Critical pedagogies of ecocide, educational privatization, and new technology
From climate disaster to the specter of nuclear annihilation to the rise of fascism and destruction of democracy to the advent of AI and other potentially destructive technologies, a number of material threats are matched by symbolic threats that undermine the capacities of people to respond. The war on public and critical education and the public sphere, the erosion of investigative journalism, ideologies of cynicism, and the crises of critical …
Beyond DEI and the culture war: Liberal technocracy, Maga authoritarianism, and the rentier order in U.S. schooling
This article argues that the dominant conflict over schooling in the United States, often framed as a struggle between liberal inclusion and MAGA exclusion, conceals a deeper convergence. Liberal technocracy and MAGA authoritarianism appear opposed, yet both depoliticize education by displacing democratic struggle over power, property, and social reproduction. The article contends that liberal defenses of public schooling, DEI, expertise, and the…
AI Schools and the New Child Labor
This Element analyzes the expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) in schooling as the emergence of a new form of child labor.The first section theorizes digital educational privatization, demonstrating how AI platforms extract value from student activity by converting learning into data production, extending standards and accountability reforms, deskilling teachers, and normalizing surveillance.The second section examines the rise of AI schools…
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