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...

This text sets out to challenge the reader by posing the question: can we learn from history? More particularly, can we learn from social history and the effects on people living today after National Socialism - the German form of fascism?

This text sets out to challenge the reader by posing the question: can we learn from history? More particularly, can we learn from social history and the effects on people living today after National Socialism - the German form of fascism?; Of crucial significance, the authors show how social education in all areas of national socialist society operated and how it functioned in terms of an interest in political formation and social discipline. What is clear is an attempt at complete social control, an unceasing incorporation of the whole lives of all people. At the centre of all these...

Die Beitrage dieses Bandes fragen im Kontext gesellschaftsanalytischer und gesellschaftspolitischer Analysen nach den Voraussetzungen und Perspektiven Sozialer Arbeit in heutigen gesellschaftlichen Konflikten und Kampfen. Soziale Arbeit ist in diese Konflikte und Kampfe eingebunden, da sie in besonderer Weise mit dem Verhaltnis von Arbeitsindividuum und Gesellschaft, Prozessen von Gesellschaftsintegration wie auch Normalisierungsstrategien befasst ist. Diese Auseinandersetzungen werden in den historischen und systematischen Uberlegungen aufgegriffen mit dem Ziel, Positionsbestimmungen und...

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...