Schooling in capitalist America : educational reform and the contradictions of economic life /
Samuel Bowles; Herbert Gintis
- Chicago, Ill. : Haymarket Books, 2011
- 340 p.; 24 cm
Pt. I. The contradictions of liberal educational reform -- 1. Beyond the educational frontier : the great American dream freeze -- 2. Broken promises : school reform in retrospect -- pt. II. Education and the structure of economic life -- 3. At the root of the problem : the capitalist economy -- 4. Education, inequality, and the meritocracy -- 5. Education and personal development : the long shadow -- pt. III. The dynamics of educational change -- 6. The origins of mass public education -- 7. Corporate capital and progressive education -- 8. The transformation of higher education and the emerging white-collar proletariat -- 9. Capital accumulation, class conflict, and educational change -- pt. IV. Getting there -- 10. Educational alternatives -- 11. Education, socialism, and revolution.
A classic work of radical educational theory and a progressive economic vision of equity and equality in America's schools.
9781608461318
Educación --Aspectos económicos Cambio educativo--Estados Unidos