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About the series
Elements in the Cultural Politics of Education is a book series dedicated to critical analysis of cultural and political issues in education.
This collection features concise, accessible, and intellectually rigorous books that intervene in some of the most pressing debates and dilemmas shaping contemporary education. Each Element offers an incisive examination of a distinct issue or problem in education be it pedagogical, institutional, cultural, ideological, or political.
The series is grounded in a recognition that education is never neutral and that it represents a key site where subjectivities, values, knowledge, and futures are being shaped and struggled over. Elements in the series are politically engaged and practically attuned, while also theoretically ambitious. They are written for scholars, students, educators, and engaged publics concerned with the future of education in times of crisis and conflict, while remaining focused on specific problems ranging from privatization and authoritarianism to climate crisis.
Ultimately, this series insists on the relevance of education to struggles for social justice, collective agency, and radical democracy in the twenty-first century.
Elements in this series
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About the editors
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Kenneth J. Saltman is Professor of Educational Policy Studies at University of Illinois Chicago. His recent books include Smart Drugs, Attention Doping, and Screen Addicts: The Drug Attention Industrial Complex in Education (Bloomsbury 2025); The Politics of Education: A Critical Introduction, 3rd Edition (Routledge 2025); The Corporatization of Education: Selected Writings of Kenneth J. Saltman (Routledge 2024); The Disaster of Resilience: Education, Digital Privatization, and Profiteering (Bloomsbury 2023); The Alienation of Fact: Digital Educational Privatization, AI, and the False Promise of Bodies and Numbers (MIT Press 2022).
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Contact the editors
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If you would like more information about this series, or are interested in writing an Element please email Alexander J. Means at means@hawaii.edu or Kenneth J. Saltman at ksaltman@uic.edu
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Alexander J. Means is Associate Professor and former Chair of the Department of Educational Foundations at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. His interdisciplinary research draws on critical traditions in the social sciences and humanities and focuses on the intersections of educational policy, political economy, technology, and the cultural politics of education, with particular attention to how education relates to questions of power, inequality, and social transformation. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, an international peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor & Francis. His most recent book isTeaching Against the Machine: Critical Pedagogy in an Era of Artificial Intelligence (Bloomsbury 2026).