Changing Classes

School Reform and the New Economy

AvMartin Packer

Inbunden, Engelska, 2000

Del i serien Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2000-11-27
Mått:158 x 235 x 21 mm
Vikt:570 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
Antal sidor:332
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521642347

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"Martin Packer's Changing Classes is a tour de force. Most ethnographic studies of schooling stop short on one side or the other of the classroom door. This keeps us from a more comprehensive and deeper grasp of the complex interaction between what happens inside and outside the school. Packer, seeking a cultural account of schooling, deftly tells a vivid story of attempts to change schools creatively--through the work and play of children, teachers and administrators--in response to devastating changes in the community. He brings changing national and state political forces into this account to show us how broad, competing school reform initiatives clash with nuanced attempts at local reform. This is a remarkable achievement." Jean Lave, University of California, Berkeley

Innehållsförteckning

Preface; 1. The Class of 2001; 2. Blue Monday: December, 1991–February, 1992; 3. Vehicle of reform, drivers of change; 4. America's birthday; 5. The last First Day; 6. Willow run is America: the 1940s and 50s; 7. Crossing to the new economy; 8. End of year report cards; 9. Rest and relaxation?; 10. Caught in the middle; 11. The change game; 12. The future of the kids coming behind us; 13. Quality or equality?; 14. Coda; Notes.