Social purpose and schooling : alternatives, agendas, and issues
This work examines competing claims about alternative arrangements for schooling by looking at popular and accepted agendas of social and political purpose and at the more troubled issues that lie behind these assumptions. The book analyzes four types of schooling arrangements.
x, 196 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9781850009207, 9781850009214, 1850009201, 185000921X
1131147167
Education and social purpose - the front line of ideology; ideologies and the agenda of schooling; changing the rules of the social policy game; frameworks for understanding; options and alternatives; the English experiment - privatize and standardize; issues in conflict - the principal arguments; the pluralist agenda and education; the schooling crucible - education and our future.