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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780521642347
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-521-64234-7
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Erscheinungstermin: 22.03.2001
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2001
- Serie: Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
- Produktform: Gebunden, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 635 g
- Seiten: 336
- Format (B x H x T): 157 x 235 x 22 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt