Joel Spring (Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City Uni

Economization of Education

Human Capital, Global Corporations, Skills-Based Schooling

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this timely, cogent analysis of the trends and powerful forces shaping global educational policy today, Joel Spring focuses on how economization is making economic growth and increased productivity the main goals of schools and the ways these goals are achieved, and raises questions about the effects of economically driven agendas for schools.

Produktdetails

• Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 252g
• ISBN-13: 9781138844612
• ISBN-10: 1138844616
• Artikelnr.: 41749761

Autorenporträt

Joel Spring is Professor at Queens College/City University of New York and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Economization and Corporatization of Education. Chapter 2 OECD:
The Economization of Test Scores. Chapter 3 Skills: The New Global
Currency. Chapter 4 World Bank: "Our Dream Is a World Free of Poverty".
Chapter 5 The World Economic Forum: Partnerships and Entrepreneurship
Education for Global Businesses. Chapter 6 Economization of the Family and
Childhood: Educating the Corporate Personality. Chapter 7 The Confluence of
Business Interests, Economic Theories, Governments and Educators: Go to
School to Learn Job Skills.