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A Curriculum of Fear

Homeland Security in U.S. Public Schools

By (author) Nicole Nguyen
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, Minnesota, United States
Published: 15th Aug 2016
Dimensions: w 140mm h 216mm d 38mm
Weight: 344g
ISBN-10: 0816698287
ISBN-13: 9780816698288
Barcode No: 9780816698288
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Welcome to Milton High School, where fear is a teacher's best tool and every student is a soldier in the war on terror. A struggling public school outside the nation's capital, Milton sat squarely at the center of two trends: growing fear of resurgent terrorism and mounting pressure to run schools as job training sites. In response, the school established a specialized Homeland Security program. A Curriculum of Fear takes us into Milton for a day-to-day look at how such a program works, what it means to students and staff, and what it says about the militarization of U.S. public schools and, more broadly, the state of public education in this country. Nicole Nguyen guides us through a curriculum of national security-themed classes, electives, and internships designed through public-private partnerships with major defense contractors like Northrop Grumman and federal agencies like the NSA. She introduces us to students in the process of becoming a corps of "diverse workers" for the national security industry, learning to be "vigilant" citizens; and she shows us the everyday realities of a program intended to improve the school, revitalize the community, and eliminate the achievement gap. With reference to critical work on school militarization, neoliberal school reform, the impact of the global war on terror on everyday life, and the political uses of fear, A Curriculum of Fear maps the contexts that gave rise to Milton's Homeland Security program and its popularity. Ultimately, as the first ethnography of such a program, the book provides a disturbing close encounter with the new normal imposed by the global war on terror-a school at once under siege and actively preparing for the siege itself.

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"A Curriculum of Fear offers unique and engaging insight on the intersections of education, securitization, and militarism in the United States. It makes an important contribution to research in each of these fields."-Emily Gilbert, University of Toronto

"A Curriculum of Fear provides a valuable contribution to the literature on the militarization and corporatization of schools, situating the topic in terms of the broader ideological and economic constellation of neoliberalism and militarism. Nicole Nguyen offers an expansive view that addresses school governance and policy, curriculum and cultural politics, and subjectivity formation."-Kenneth Saltman, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth "A must-read."-H-Net

"Nguyen demonstrates tremendous abilities as a writer that bode well for the quality of intellectual work we can expect from her in the future. A Curriculum of Fear, however, might be a tough act for her to follow."-American Journal of Sociology