<p>Teachers, students and parents are required to be excitedly resilient in the face of radical reforms that are destroying their relationship with each other in schools and communities. Saltman shows in detail the relationship between seemingly benign interventions about bodies and practices, and the unfolding disasters occurring as a result of the relocation of responsibility to the private world of the individual. This<br />book is shockingly important for understanding and explaining the dismantling of public education.</p>
- Helen M. Gunter, Professor Emerita, University of Manchester, UK,
If you’re excited about promoting resilience among the youth, read this book. Educators, parents, students, and researchers all need to consider what Saltman unveils. Resilience pedagogy, no matter what its form, may just be that trojan horse for even more privatization, and even less democracy.
- Mark Garrison, Professor of Education, West Texas A&M University, USA,
Introduction: The Politics of Resilience and Disaster
1. Microschools, UberEd and the Dropout Recovery Industry
2. From Venture Philanthropy to Digital Privatization: New Schools Venture Fund, Leap Innovations and the Selling of Digital Student Resilience
3. Democracy International, Inc.: Selling Resilience and Education in the Global Influence Peddling Industry
4. Trauma-Informed Pedagogy, Grit, and Biometrics: The Denial of Educational Politics and Racial Politics
5. Student Resilience, Social Emotional Learning, Testing as Teaching, and the Displacement of Intellectual Traditions
Conclusion: From the Disaster of Resilience to Becoming Resilient to Resilience
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Index
Critiques the prevalence of resilience discourses in education today and links this with the accelerating digital privatization of education.