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The Politics, Sociology and Economics of Education

Interdisciplinary and Comparative Perspectives

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  • © 1997

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Editors:
  1. Russell F. Farnen

    1. University of Connecticut, USA

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  2. Heinz Sünker

    1. University of Wuppertal, Germany

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Setting the Context

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Present as Seen From the Past

      • Russell F. Farnen
      Pages 3-12

  3. Politics and/of Education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Politics, Education, and Paradigmatic Reconceptualism: US Critical Theory in the 1990s

      • Russell F. Farnen
      Pages 15-43

    3. Conservative Politics and National Curricula

      • Michael W. Apple
      Pages 45-59

  5. Economics and Education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. Educational Politics, Division of Labor, and Emancipation

      • Peter Leisink
      Pages 129-140

    3. Corporatism and Identity

      • Philip Wexler
      Pages 141-152

    4. Educational Reform and Politics in Israel: Change or Economic Reproduction?

      • Ilana Felsenthal, Chaim Adler
      Pages 153-168

    5. Educational Policy as Technocratic Strategy: The Politics of Excellence

      • Frank Fischer, Alan Mandell
      Pages 169-182

    6. Pedagogy in the Age of Predatory Culture

      • Peter McLaren
      Pages 183-196

  6. Educational Reform

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-197
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    2. Recent Education Reform: Is It a Postmodern Phenomenon?

      • Geoff Whitty
      Pages 199-210
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This book uses international and interdisciplinary approaches to the comparative study of education in its political, sociological, and economic contexts. Major topics include critical theory, hegemony, postmodernism, oppression, disabilities, emancipation, corporatism, meritocracy, democracy, socialization, reproduction, pluralism, inequality, social analysis, postindustrialism, predatory culture, pragmatism, and 'subversion'. Educators from the US, UK, Canada, Netherlands, FRG, Israel, and Sweden survey the current educational scene in the US and Western Europe, major policy debates, and possible solutions for current public policy dilemmas.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Connecticut, USA

    Russell F. Farnen

  • University of Wuppertal, Germany

    Heinz Sünker

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