T. Jameson Brewer, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Social Foundations of Education at the University of North Georgia. His teaching experience spans from the middle school, high school, undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels. Broadly conceptualized, his research focuses on the impact of privatization and marketization of public education by way of school vouchers, charter schools, alternative teacher certification, and homeschooling. His most recent books are Philanthropy, Strategy, and Collective Resistance: A Primer for Educators (Myers Education Press, 2019), Learning to Teach in an Era of Privatization: Global Trends in Teacher Preparation, and Teach For All Counter-Narratives: International Perspectives on a Global Reform Movement. Greg Harman, Ed.D., M.E.A., is an associate professor of teacher education at Lewis-Clark State College. He was formerly at Dominican University, Chicago. He teaches educational psychology, educational philosophy, social studies methods, and mentors teacher candidates in student teaching. He began in education as a social studies teacher, teaching middle and high school students for over a decade in the Twin Cities metro. He has edited for SOJO, reviewed for Education Policy Analysis Archives, has published in both, as well as in Educational Theory, Teaching with Primary Sources: Research & Practice, Critical Questions in Education, and Teaching & Learning.

• ForewordNoah De LissovoyChapter 1. IntroductionW. Gregory HarmanChapter 2. Education and School: How Defining Our Terms Determines Our ApproachW. Gregory Harman & MatthewJ. HaydenChapter 3. Resisting Neoliberal Reforms in Early Childhood Education: Play Pedagogy as the Antidote to GERMDenisha JonesChapter 4. How Schools Reinforce Socially Constructed Notions of "Smartness" and How we Can Subvert them Through TrustT. Jameson Brewer & Scott T.GrubbsChapter 5. Creating and Commodifying the Neoliberal Self: A Weberian Analysis of an International Education CourseAshlee B. Anderson & Andrea Arce-TrigattiChapter 6. Combating the Commodification of Knowledge: The Maker MovementMichael Schad & Kurt StemhagenChapter 7. Unionizing Educators in Charter Schools: A Case Study of the Chicago Teacher's Union Organizing ModelMichelle Strater GundersonChapter 8. What Are "Soft Skills," and Should We Be Teaching Them?Bailey B. SmolarekEditor and Contributor BiographiesIndex

T. Jameson Brewer, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Social Foundations of Education at the University of North Georgia. His teaching experience spans from the middle school, high school, undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels. Broadly conceptualized, his research focuses on the impact of privatization and marketization of public education by way of school vouchers, charter schools, alternative teacher certification, and homeschooling. His most recent books are Philanthropy, Strategy, and Collective Resistance: A Primer for Educators (Myers Education Press, 2019), Learning to Teach in an Era of Privatization: Global Trends in Teacher Preparation, and Teach For All Counter-Narratives: International Perspectives on a Global Reform Movement. Greg Harman, Ed.D., M.E.A., is an associate professor of teacher education at Lewis-Clark State College. He was formerly at Dominican University, Chicago. He teaches educational psychology, educational philosophy, social studies methods, and mentors teacher candidates in student teaching. He began in education as a social studies teacher, teaching middle and high school students for over a decade in the Twin Cities metro. He has edited for SOJO, reviewed for Education Policy Analysis Archives, has published in both, as well as in Educational Theory, Teaching with Primary Sources: Research & Practice, Critical Questions in Education, and Teaching & Learning.

• ForewordNoah De LissovoyChapter 1. IntroductionW. Gregory HarmanChapter 2. Education and School: How Defining Our Terms Determines Our ApproachW. Gregory Harman & MatthewJ. HaydenChapter 3. Resisting Neoliberal Reforms in Early Childhood Education: Play Pedagogy as the Antidote to GERMDenisha JonesChapter 4. How Schools Reinforce Socially Constructed Notions of "Smartness" and How we Can Subvert them Through TrustT. Jameson Brewer & Scott T.GrubbsChapter 5. Creating and Commodifying the Neoliberal Self: A Weberian Analysis of an International Education CourseAshlee B. Anderson & Andrea Arce-TrigattiChapter 6. Combating the Commodification of Knowledge: The Maker MovementMichael Schad & Kurt StemhagenChapter 7. Unionizing Educators in Charter Schools: A Case Study of the Chicago Teacher's Union Organizing ModelMichelle Strater GundersonChapter 8. What Are "Soft Skills," and Should We Be Teaching Them?Bailey B. SmolarekEditor and Contributor BiographiesIndex

T. Jameson Brewer, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Social Foundations of Education at the University of North Georgia. His teaching experience spans from the middle school, high school, undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels. Broadly conceptualized, his research focuses on the impact of privatization and marketization of public education by way of school vouchers, charter schools, alternative teacher certification, and homeschooling. His most recent books are Philanthropy, Strategy, and Collective Resistance: A Primer for Educators (Myers Education Press, 2019), Learning to Teach in an Era of Privatization: Global Trends in Teacher Preparation, and Teach For All Counter-Narratives: International Perspectives on a Global Reform Movement. Greg Harman, Ed.D., M.E.A., is an associate professor of teacher education at Lewis-Clark State College. He was formerly at Dominican University, Chicago. He teaches educational psychology, educational philosophy, social studies methods, and mentors teacher candidates in student teaching. He began in education as a social studies teacher, teaching middle and high school students for over a decade in the Twin Cities metro. He has edited for SOJO, reviewed for Education Policy Analysis Archives, has published in both, as well as in Educational Theory, Teaching with Primary Sources: Research & Practice, Critical Questions in Education, and Teaching & Learning.

• ForewordNoah De LissovoyChapter 1. IntroductionW. Gregory HarmanChapter 2. Education and School: How Defining Our Terms Determines Our ApproachW. Gregory Harman & MatthewJ. HaydenChapter 3. Resisting Neoliberal Reforms in Early Childhood Education: Play Pedagogy as the Antidote to GERMDenisha JonesChapter 4. How Schools Reinforce Socially Constructed Notions of "Smartness" and How we Can Subvert them Through TrustT. Jameson Brewer & Scott T.GrubbsChapter 5. Creating and Commodifying the Neoliberal Self: A Weberian Analysis of an International Education CourseAshlee B. Anderson & Andrea Arce-TrigattiChapter 6. Combating the Commodification of Knowledge: The Maker MovementMichael Schad & Kurt StemhagenChapter 7. Unionizing Educators in Charter Schools: A Case Study of the Chicago Teacher's Union Organizing ModelMichelle Strater GundersonChapter 8. What Are "Soft Skills," and Should We Be Teaching Them?Bailey B. SmolarekEditor and Contributor BiographiesIndex