The Politics, Sociology and Economics of Education: Interdisciplinary and Comparative Perspectives

Preface - Contributors - PART 1: SETTING THE CONTEXT - The Present as Seen From the Past; R.F.Farnen - PART 2: POLITICS AND/OF EDUCATION - Politics, Education, and Paradigmatic Reconceptualism: US Critical Theory in the 1990s; R.F.Farnen - Conservative Politics and National Curricula; M.W.Apple - PART 3: EDUCATION AND SOCIETY - Blaming the Victims: The Political Oppression of Disabled People; L.Barton - The Repudiation of Criteriology: In Pursuit of Communities of Democracy and Hope; S.Miedema - Socialization and Economic Reproduction in Pluralistic Welfare Societies; S.Hradil - Social Inequality; F-U.Kolbe, H.Sunker, D.Timmermann - Heydorn's Bildungs Theory and Content as Social Analysis; H.Sunker - PART 4: ECONOMICS AND EDUCATION - Educational Politics, Division of Labour, and Emancipation; P.Leisink - Corporatism and Identity; P.Wexler - Educational Reform and Politics in Israel: Change or Economic Reproduction?; I.Felsenthal & C.Adler - Educational Policy as Technocratic Strategy: The Politics of Excellence; F.Fisher & A.Mandell - Pedagogy in the Age of Predatory Culture; P.McLaren - PART 5: EDUCATIONAL REFORM - Recent Education Reform: Is it a Postmodern Phenomenon?; G.Whitty - Educational Discourses and Creating a Democratic Public: A Critical Pragmatic View; T.Englund - Summary/Conclusions: The Future as Seen from the Present; R.F.Farnen & H.Sunker - References - Index