School Reform in a Global Society - 19th Century Schools for the 21st Century

Klappentext This far reaching text, explores the relations between global wealth and poverty, American and European elites and Third World indigenous societies, and the role schools play in the destruction of cultures. It exams how the dark underside of capitalism, called neoliberalism, is using schools to destroy an American generation and why the No Child Left Behind Act is replacing the democracy of Roosevelt and Dewey with Victorian classism. Zusammenfassung Attempts to explore the relations between global wealth and poverty! American and European elites and Third World indigenous societies and the role schools play in the destruction of cultures. This text examines how the dark underside of capitalism! called neoliberalism! is using schools to destroy an American generation.

Product details

• Authors: William E. Segall
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.05.2006
• EAN: 9780742524606
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-2460-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system