Changing Classes

School Reform and the New Economy

von Martin J. Packer

332 Seiten, Taschenbuch

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 Pädagogik / Erziehungswissenschaften Pädagogische Psychologie
• ISBN: 9780521645409
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 03.02.2014
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Herausgegeben von: John Seely Brown, Roy Pea