Social Purpose and Schooling: Alternatives, Agendas and Issues

ISBN-13: 9780415788250 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 206 str.

Jerry Paquette

Opis

First published in 1991, this work critically analyses the competing claims about alternative arrangements for schooling. The book poses key questions about the meaning and purpose of schooling in the rapidly evolving social, demographic and technological realities of the time.

Spis treści

List of Figures and Tables; Glossary of Terms; Preface; 1. Education and Social Purpose: The Front Line of Ideology 2. Ideologies and Agenda of Schooling 3. Changing the Rules of the Social Policy Game 4. Frameworks for Understanding 5. Options and Alternatives 6. The English Experiment: Privatize and Standardize 7. Issues in Conflict: The Principal Arguments 8. The Pluralist Agenda and Education 9. The Schooling Crucible: Education and Our Future; Bibliography; Index

O autorze

Paquette, Jerry