Resisting Divide–and–Conquer Strategies in Educa – Pathways and Possibilities

Resisting Divide-and-Conquer Strategies in EducationPathways and Possibilities\nAuthor(s): Dennis L. Rudnick\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Myers Education Press, United States\nImprint: Myers Education Press\nISBN-13: 9781975505967, 978-1975505967\nSynopsis\nResisting Divide-and-Conquer Strategies in Education: Pathways and Possibilities examines the ways in which divide-and-conquer strategies operate in the American public education system. In [url] education, these mechanisms are endemic and enduring, if not always evident. Coordinated, strategic, well-funded, politically-viable campaigns continue to stoke fear, othering, villainization, and dehumanization of minoritized groups, pushing false and problematic narratives that inhibit progress toward social justice. Weaponizing hegemony and leveraging misinformation, reactionary agents and institutions seek to suppress truth, block access to democratic participation, and dismantle education and other sites of emancipatory possibility.