Changing Classes

von Martin Packer

332 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

How do schools help to create the kind of person a child becomes? Changing Classes tells the story of a small, poor, ethnically-mixed school district in Michigan's rust-belt, a community in turmoil over the announced closing of a nearby auto assembly plant. As teachers and administrators found ways to make schooling more relevant to working-class children, two large-scale school reform initiatives swept into town: the Governor's 'market-place' reforms and the National Science Foundation's 'state systemic initiative'. All this is set against the backdrop of the transformation to a global, post-Fordist economy. The result is an account of the complex linkages at work as society structures the development of children to adulthood.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie
• ISBN: 9780521642347
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 22.03.2001
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press