(Dis)order of U.s. Schooling - Zygmunt Bauman and Education for an Ambivalent World

This book critically interrogates the function of schooling in the United States of America using the writings of sociologist Zygmunt Bauman and suggests that its aims, whether recognized or not, are not so much to educate students to be free thinkers, but rather to be orderly cogs in a particular functional social machine.

List of contents

Preface—On Thinking with Bauman 1. Introduction 2. Order Mark 1: Normativity, Repression, and Surveillance in Schools 3. Liquid Modernity and Schooling 4. Order Mark 2: Seduction 5. 1619 or 1776: Pluralism or Nationalism 6. Culture of Conformism (Culture … To Be Cultured) 7. The Outsider, the Other, the Stranger: Legislating Out (Transgender) Difference 8. Educating for Ambivalence: Unsteady Education for Unsteady Times

About the author

Eric Ferris is a High School Mathematics Teacher. He graduated from Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA.

Summary

This book critically interrogates the function of schooling in the United States of America using the writings of sociologist Zygmunt Bauman and suggests that its aims, whether recognized or not, are not so much to educate students to be free thinkers, but rather to be orderly cogs in a particular functional social machine.

Product details

• Authors: Eric Ferris
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9781032450636
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3245063-6
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Routledge Research in the Sociology of Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); USA, Social Theory, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, EDUCATION / Aims & Objectives, United States of America, USA, Moral and social purpose of education, Moral & social purpose of education