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About Joel Spring
- Joel Spring (born in San Diego, California on September 24, 1940) is an American academic.
- He writes on American and global educational policy with over twenty books on these topics.
- His great-great-grandfather was the first Principal Chief of the Choctaw Nation in Indian Territory and his grandfather, Joel S.
- Spring, was a local district chief at the time Indian Territory became Oklahoma.
- Joel Spring worked as a railroad conductor on the Illinois Central Railroad and for many years lived each summer on an island off the coast of Sitka, Alaska.
- His self-published novel, Alaskan Visions includes many of his Alaskan experiences.He received his Ph.D.
- in educational policy studies from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
- Spring’s major research interests are history of education, globalization and education, multicultural education, Native American culture, the politics of education, and human rights education.
- As of 2008, and A New Paradigm for Global School Systems: Education for a Long and Happy Life.
- Some of Spring's other books are Pedagogies of Globalization: The Rise of the Educational Security State; How Educational Ideologies are Shaping Global Society; and Education and the Rise of the Global Economy.
- His most important textbooks are American Education (now in its 18th edition); The American School: From the Puritans to No Child Left Behind (now in its 7th edition, previously titled The American School: 1642-2004) and Conflict of Interests: The Politics of American Education (now in its 5th edition). His book Wheels in the Head: Educational Philosophies of Authority, Freedom, and Culture from Socrates to Human Rights was recently translated into Chinese and published by the University of Peking Press.
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