Growing-up modern : the Western state builds Third-World schools
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Bibliographic Information
Growing-up modern : the Western state builds Third-World schools
（Critical social thought / series editor, Michael W. Apple）
Routledge, 1991
- : pbk.
Available at 9 libraries
Note
Bibliographical references: p. 149-165
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780415902274
Description
Western governments have a deep and unquestioning faith in the miraculous power of mass schooling to change society. In First and Third Worlds alike, the modern state pushes tirelessly to expand mass education and to strengthen the school's effect upon children. This book explores why, how and with what actual effects, politicians, bureaucrats and civic elite groups attempt to spread schooling to younger children, older adults and previously disenfranchised groups. The author argues that the school provides an institutional stage on which political actors signal various, sometimes contradictory, ideals, for example, a broadening membership in the polity, promises of mass opportunity in the wage sector and a deepening of a presumed commitment to the child's individual development. He advances a theory of the "fragile state" where Western political expectations and organizations are placed within pluralistic Third World settings. Using South Africa as an example, the author details the dilemmas faced by the central state, how it tries to influence local schools and what the results are within the classroom.
This book is intended to be of interest to educational researchers and those concerned with sociology, politics and policy and development studies.
Table of Contents
- A faithful yet rocky romance between state and school
- what drives the expansion and deepening of mass schooling?
- winding up schools - the state constructs teachers' roles and tools
- strong states, strong teachers?
- choice, community and the teaching craft.
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: pbk. ISBN 9780415902281
Description
Western governments appear to have a deep and unquestioning faith in the miraculous power of mass schooling to change society. In First and Third Worlds alike, the modern state pushes tirelessly to expand mass education and to deepen the school's effect upon children. This book explores why, how and with what actual effects politicians and bureaucrats try to spread schooling to younger children, older adults and previously disenfranchised groups. The author argues that the school provides an institutional stage on which political actors signal various (contradictory) ideals: broadening membership in the polity, promising mass opportunity in the wage sector and deepening a presumed commitment to the child's individual development. He advances a theory of the "fragile state" where Western political expectations and organizations are placed within pluralistic Third World settings. Using southern Africa as an example, he details the dilemmas faced by the central state, how it tries to influence local schools and what the results are within the classroom.
Table of Contents
- A faithful yet rocky romance between state and school
- what drives the expansion and deepening of mass schooling?
- winding-up schools - the state constructs teachers' roles and tools
- strong states, strong teachers?: choice, community and the teaching craft.
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