Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis

Schooling in Capitalist America

Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life

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Produktbeschreibung

A classic work of radical educational theory and a progressive economic vision of equity and equality in America's schools.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 151mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9781608461318
• ISBN-10: 1608461319
• Artikelnr.: 32444024

Autorenporträt

Samuel Bowles: Samuel Bowles is Research Professor and Director of the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute, and Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Massachusetts. Herbert Gintis: Herbert Gintis is an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute and a Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the Paperback Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Part I: The Contradictions of Liberal Educational Reform
1. 1. Beyond the Educational Frontier: The Great American Dream Freeze
2. 2. Broken Promises: School Reform in Retrospect
Part II: Education and the Structure of Economic Life
3. 3. At the Root of the Problem: The Capitalist Economy
4. 4. Education, Inequality, and the Meritocracy
5. 5. Education and Personal Development: The Long Shadow of Work
Part III: The Dynamics of Educational Change
6. 6. The Origins of Mass Public Education
7. 7. Corporate Capital and Progressive Education
8. 8. The Transformation of Higher Education and the Emerging White-Collar
Proletariat
9. 9. Capital Accumulation, Class Conflict, and Educational Change
Part IV: Getting There
10. 10. Educational Alternatives
11. 11. Education, Socialism, and Revolution
Schooling in Capitalist America Revisited (2010)
Appendices
Notes
Index