A Curriculum of Fear: Homeland Security in U.S. Public Schools
Nicole Nguyen
Abstract
By traveling through daily life at the school, A Curriculum of Fear investigates how students and school staff made sense of, negotiated, and contested the intense focus on national security, terrorism, and their militarized responsibilities to the nation. Drawing from critical scholarship on school militarization, neoliberal school reform, the impact of the global war on terror on everyday life in the U.S., and the political uses of fear, this book maps the social, political, and economic contexts that gave rise to the school’s Homeland Security program and its popularity. Ultimately, as the ... More
Keywords: National security, School reform, Neoliberalism, Global war on terror, Ethnography, Public education
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 | Print ISBN-13: 9780816698264 |
| Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: May 2017 | DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816698264.001.0001 |
