Gaslighting School Educational Policy in a Post-Truth World

Grant Rodwell is a Senior Research Fellow, Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, Australia. He has taught in various Australian universities and has published widely in history. He holds five PhDs from Australian universities. This is his tenth book published by Routledge.

'Understanding educational policy and its subsequent practice within the contexts of gaslighting, moral panics, subversive politics, complicit media, systemic and structural coercion by elected officials and their intended effects on educational policy requires a new paradigm for making sense of the chaos. Grant Rodwell’s Gaslighting School Educational Policy in a Post-Truth World brings it all together by careful comparative analysis, descriptive content and glaring tragic events impacting policy in the US, UK, and Australia. A great read.'Darol Cavanagh, PhD, Associate Professor, Charles Darwin University, UK, Ret.

• AbstractAcknowledgementsAcronyms and abbreviationsPrefaceIntroduction1. The gaslighting phenomenon2. Systemic and structural gaslighting in the US and Australia3. School education in a post-truth world4. Gaslighting, moral panics, risk society, dog-whistling, dead-catting and the deep mediatization of school educational policy 5. It all starts at the school gate6. Gaslighting, narcissism and the new technologies in school pedagogy and practice 7. Risk-society theory, helicopter parents and gaslighting obesity 8. COVID-19 and national governments gaslighting school educational policy and practice 9. School educational policy and gaslighting racism10. School educational policy and gaslighting gender and sexuality Index