From the tooting your own horn department…

Neoliberalism and Education Reform has been chosen for the 2008 Critics Choice Book Awards from the American Educational Studies Association.

Published in June 2007 by Hampton Press, Neoliberalism and Education Reform examines how market-based economic policies affect teaching, curriculum, and the structure of schools and universities in North American and the United Kingdom. This book undertakes two primary goals: a critique of educational reforms that result from the rise of neoliberalism, and to provide Marxian alternatives to neoliberal conceptions of educational problems and solutions.

Rich Gibson (San Diego State University) and I are the co-editors and the book includes contributions from: Richard Brosio, Gilbert G. Gonzalez, Dave Hill, David Hursh, Les Levidov, Pauline Lipman, Peter McLaren, Glenn Rikowski, Patrick Shannon, Kevin D. Vinson, and John F. Welsh.

Here is a listing of the books receiving Critics Choice Awards this year:

Biesta, Gert (2006). Beyond Learning: Democratic Education for a Human Future. Boulder, CO:
Paradigm Publishers.

Dillard, C.B. (2006). On Spiritual Strivings: Transforming an African American Woman’s Academic
Life. Albany, NY: SUNY.

Gabbard, D. (2008). Knowledge and Power in the Global Economy: The Effects of School Reform in a
Neoliberal/Neoconservative Age. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishing.

Giroux, Henry, A. (2007). The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic
Complex. Boulder, CO: Paradigm.

Hare, William, and John P. Portelli (Eds.), (2007). Key Questions for Educators. San Francisco: Caddo
Gap Press.

Hyslop-Margison, Emery and M. Ayaz Naseem (2007). Scientism and Education: Empirical Research
as Neo-Liberal Ideology. Springer.

Joshee, R. and L. Johnson (Eds.), (2007). Multicultural Education Policies in Canada and the United
States. Vancouver, BC: The University of British Columbia Press.

Kellner, Douglas (2008). Guys and Guns Amok: Domestic Terrorism and School Shootings from the
Oklahoma City Bombing to the Virginia Tech Massacre. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.

Lather, Patti (2007). Getting Lost: Feminist Efforts Toward a Double(d) Science. Albany, New York:
SUNY.

Mayo, Cris (2007). Disputing the Subject of Sex: Sexuality and Public School Controversies. Rowman
& Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

Noguera, Pedro (2008). The Trouble with Black Boys. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Robbins, Christopher, (2008). Expelling Hope: The Assault on Youth and the Militarization of Schooling.
Albany, NY: SUNY.

Ross, E. W., & Gibson, R. (Eds.). (2007). Neoliberalism and Education Reform. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton
Press.

Salvio, Paula (2007). Anne Sexton: Teacher of Weird Abundance. State University of New York Press.

Saltman, Kenneth (2007). Capitalizing on Disaster: Taking and Breaking Public School. Boulder, CO:
Paradigm.

Schultz, Brian (2008). Spectacular Things Happen Along the Way: Lessons from an Urban Classroom.
Columbia, NY: Teachers College.

Solomon, R. P. and D. N. Sekayi (Eds.), (2007). Urban Teacher Education and Teaching: Innovative
Practices for Diversity and Social Justice. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Yosso, Tara (2006). Critical Race Counterstories along the Chicana/Chicano Educational Pipeline.
Routledge.

Villegas, Malia, Neugebauer, Sabina Rak and Kerry R. Venegas (Eds.), (2008). Indigenous Knowledge
And Education: Sites of Struggle, Strength, and Survivance. Harvard.

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