Gaslighting School Educational Policy in a Post-Truth World Systems, Schools and Society Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics Series

Focusing on current educational systems in the US, UK, and Australia, Grant Rodwell examines the politics of gaslighting within school educational policy and how this links to political motives in a post-truth world.

In recent years, gaslighting has become a major global issue due to various personal, social and political factors. Using sustained comparative description and analysis, Rodwell provides up-to-date research on how gaslighting impacts school educational policy. As gaslighting is a complex term, the book gives a framework of how to comprehend it relative to school educational topics and issues.

This book will be a foundational resource for tertiary institutions, educational policy students and researchers, politicians and parents concerned with gaslighting policies and practices.

Introduction 1. The gaslighting phenomenon 2. Structural and systemic gaslighting in the US and Australia 3. School education in a post-truth world 4. Gaslighting, moral panics, risk society, dog-whistling, dead-catting and the deep mediatization of school educational policy 5. It all starts at the school gate 6. Gaslighting, narcissism, and the new technologies in school pedagogy and practice 7. Risk-society theory, helicopter parents, overscheduled kids, and gaslighting obesity 8. COVID-19 and national governments gaslighting educational policy and practice 9. School educational policy and gaslighting racism 10. School educational policy: gaslighting gender and sexuality 11. General Conclusions

Grant Rodwell is an adjunct senior lecturer at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. He has taught in various Australian universities and has published widely in history. He holds five PhDs from Australian universities. This is his seventh book published by Routledge.