Rethinking US Education Policy Paradigms of the Knowledge Economy [Hardcover]

Drawing on discussions of the Creative Economy, the Network Economy, and the Green Economy, Rethinking US Education Policy critiques educational policies authored by the Obama administration and considers the need for a new educational policy framework that is better adapted to an era of accelerating innovation.1. US Education Policy as Economic Policy 2. The Knowledge Economy in Context 3. Paradigms of the Knowledge Economy 4. Education Policy and the Obama Administration 5. The Knowledge Economy in Dialogue 6. Rethinking US Education Policy

Rethinking US Education Policy is an insightful analysis of current educational policy in the US, its governing concepts and discourses, and the major problems it faces. It is an astute account of the contemporary knowledge economy and the prospect of technology to provide answers for a modernized US education sector in the global digital economy. It is recommended reading for all those involved in the education debate: policy-makers, academics, teachers, parents and graduate students. - Michael A. Peters, Professor of Education, University of Waikato, New Zealand, and Emeritus Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Daniel Araya has written a thoughtful and scholarly analysis of the new economy and the need to radically rethink US education policy. He understands that education for the new innovation era must be fundamentally different not merely incrementally better than what we have today.' - Tony Wagner, Expert in Residence, Harvard Innovation Lab, Harvard University, USA; Author of Creating Innovators (2012)

Timely reading! In the spirit of Peter Drucker, Daniel Araya synthesizes some of the major transformations of our time increasing global competition, the rise of technological innovation, and the decline of rudimentary labor. With a multidisciplinary eye, he boldly calls on American education to better cultivate the creativity needed for a sustainalc…