No Child Left Behind and the Spectacle of Failing Schools
The Mythology of Contemporary School Reform
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8924765 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Granger (SUNY Geneseo, corresponding author), David A Granger |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 206-228 |
| Publication date | 2008-06-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-1946 • E-ISSN: 1532-6993 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00131940802117654 |
| OpenAlex | W2049147699 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 27 |
This article discusses what David Berliner (2005) has called the perverse “spectacle of fear” (208) surrounding issues of teacher quality and accountability in contemporary school reform. Drawing principally on the critical semiotics of Roland Barthes' essay, “The World of Wrestling” (1957), it examines the way that this spectacle works to undermine public education and explicates the powerful mythology behind it. The article then concludes with some suggestions on how this destructive “spectacle of fear” might potentially be disrupted using the agencies of Deweyan “strong democracy”
Accountability · Aesthetics · Art · Democracy · Epistemology · Literature · Mythology · No child left behind · Political science · Politics · Semiotics · Sociology · Spectacle · Critical and Liberation Pedagogy · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Law · Philosophy · Political theory and Gramsci
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,53 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |