Joel Spring is a professor at Queens College and the Graduate, City University of New York, whose scholarship focuses on educational policy, the politics of education, and educational globalization.
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He has published over twenty books on American and global school policies, including Political Agendas for Education: From Change We Can Believe in to Putting America First (2010), Globalization of Education: An Introduction (2009), A New Paradigm for Global School Systems: Education for a Long and Happy Life (2007), Wheels in the Head: Educational Philosophies of Authority, Freedom, and Culture from Confucianism to Human Rights, Third Edition (2008), Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality: A Brief History of the Education of Dominated Cultures in the United States, Sixth Edition (2010) and American Education, Fourteenth Edition (2010).
Joel Spring is an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation. His great-great-grandfather was the first Principal Chief of the Choctaw Nation in Indian Territory and his grandfather, Joel S. Spring, was a district chief at the time Indian Territory became Oklahoma. He lived for many summers on an island off the coast of Sitka, Alaska. His novel, Alaskan Visions, reflects these Alaskan experiences.
Joel has received numerous educational awards including the Society of Professors of Education Mary Anne Raywid Award for Distinguished Scholarship in the Field of Education; the University of Wisconsin Alumni Achievement Award, Gerald H. Read Distinguished Lecturer, Center for Intercultural and Intercultural Education, and the Presidential Lectureship, University of Vermont. He frequently gives invited lectures, which in 2010 included the Mitstifer Lectureship at the annual meeting of the University Council for Education Administration, the keynote for the 30th Bilingual/ESL Conference, and an invited lecture tour of China including the University of Hong Kong, Szechuan Normal University, Tsinghua University, Beijing Normal University, and the Central University of Nationalities.
Series: Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
Turning his distinctive analytical lens to the politics of American education, Joel Spring looks at contemporary educational policy issues from theoretical, practical, and historical perspectives. This comprehensive overview documents and explains who influences educational policy and how, bringing...
Published November 18th 2010 by Routledge
Series: Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
Bringing up-to-date Joel Spring’s ongoing documentation and analysis of political agendas for education in the US, the fourth edition of Political Agendas for Education focuses on the Republican and Democratic parties in the 2008 national election and post-2008 election era. In order to...
Published October 14th 2009 by Routledge
Series: Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
Continuing Joel Spring’s reportage and analysis of the intersection of global forces and education, this text offers a comprehensive overview and synthesis of current research, theories, and models related to the topic. Spring introduces readers to the processes, institutions, and forces by which...
Published November 17th 2008 by Routledge
Series: Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
In this popular text Joel Spring provocatively analyzes the ideas of traditional and non-traditional philosophies from Confucianism to human rights regarding the contribution of education to the creation of a democratic society. The goal is to explore how governments use education to control...
Published September 18th 2007 by Routledge
Series: Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
The Intersection of Cultures: Multicultural Education in the United States and the Global Economy, Fourth Edition offers a unique, problem-solving approach to the complex issues involved in educating culturally and linguistically diverse students. Perfect for any course devoted wholly or in...
Published September 11th 2007 by Routledge
Series: Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
This volume—a major new contribution to Joel Spring’s reportage and analysis of the intersection of global forces and education—offers a new paradigm for global school systems. Education for global economic competition is the prevailing goal of most national school systems. Spring...
Published February 21st 2007 by Routledge
Series: Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
In this ground-breaking book, Joel Spring examines globalization and its worldwide effects on education. A central thesis is that industrial-consumerism is the dominant paradigm in the integration of education and economic planning in modern economic security states.In the twenty-first century,...
Published March 12th 2006 by Routledge
Series: Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
In this book Joel Spring explores three major international educational ideologies that are shaping global society: neo-liberal educational ideology, human rights education, and environmentalism. Neo-liberal ideology reflects a rethinking of nationalist forms of education as the nation-state slowly...
Published March 30th 2004 by Routledge
Series: Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
In Educating the Consumer-Citizen: A History of the Marriage of Schools, Advertising, and Media, Joel Spring charts the rise of consumerism as the dominant American ideology of the 21st century. He documents and analyzes how, from the early 19th century through the present, the combined endeavors...
Published March 31st 2003 by Routledge
Series: Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
This is the first book to explore the meaning of equality and freedom of education in a global context and their relationship to the universal right to education. It also proposes evaluating school systems according to their achievement of equality and freedom. Education in the 21st century is...
Published May 31st 2001 by Routledge
Series: Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
In this book, Joel Spring offers a powerful and closely reasoned justification and definition for the universal right to education--applicable to all cultures--as provided for in Article 26 of the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. One sixth of the world's population, nearly...
Published February 29th 2000 by Routledge
Series: Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
Joel Spring investigates the role of educational policy in the evolving global economy, and the consequences of school systems around the world adapting to meet the needs of international corporations. The new global model for education addresses problems of technological change, the quick exchange...
Published August 31st 1998 by Routledge
Series: Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
This book describes the impact of U.S. government civilization and education policies on a Native American family and its tribe from 1763 to 1995. While engaged in a personal quest for his family's roots in Choctaw tribal history, the author discovered a direct relationship between educational...
Published May 31st 1996 by Routledge
