Teaching and Time: Foundations of a Temporal Pedagogy‪.‬

Introduction Most federal reform agendas over the past two decades have echoed the 1983 A Nation at Risk report that "the basic purposes of schooling" are to reestablish America's "once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and technological innovation." Such pronouncements pound home the political message that the primary function of schooling must be the corporate goal of "educating the worker-citizen" (Spring, 1976). By this view, the only type of "intelligence" that matters is what can be psychometrically evaluated and managed to produce efficient and uncritical agents of the transnational, corporate capitalist project of creating and dominating markets (Giddens, 1990).