Making Workers

Radical Geographies of Education

AvKatharyne Mitchell

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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As globalisation transforms the organisation of society, so too is its impact felt in the classroom. Katharyne Mitchell argues that schools are spaces in which neoliberal practices are brought to bear on the lives of children. Education’s narratives, actors and institutions play a pivotal role in the social and political formation of youth as workers in a capitalist economy.Mitchell looks at the formation of student identity and allegiance –as well as spaces of resistance. She investigates the transition to educational narratives emphasising flexibility and strategic global entrepreneurialism and examines the role of education in a broader political project of producing new generations of economically insecure but compliant workers.Scrutinising the impact of an influx of new actors, practices and policies, Mitchell argues that public education is the latest institution to embrace the neoliberal logic of 'choice' – pertaining to schools, faculty, and curricula – that, if unchallenged, will lead to further incursions of the market and increased socioeconomic inequality.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-12-20
Mått:135 x 215 x 16 mm
Vikt:145 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Radical Geography
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Pluto Press
ISBN:9780745399850

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Katharyne Mitchell is Dean of the Division of Social Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is author and editor of several books, including Practicising Public Scholarship (2008).

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'Katharyne Mitchell's Making Workers is an exemplary analysis of the structural forces, networks, discourses, and practices shaping educational systems from compulsory education through to higher education, including life-long learning. Given the importance of education systems to the production of citizens as well as the work-force, Mitchell’s book is a must-read for all interested in the future of economy and society'

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AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsSeries PrefacePart I: Geographies of Work and Education1. Spatial Divisions of Labor and the Search for Jobs2. Creating the Entrepreneurial ChildPart II: Flexible Work, Strategic Workers3. From Multicultural Citizen to Global Businessman4. Geographies of Lifelong Learning and the Knowledge Economy (co-authored with Key MacFarlane) 5. Global Restructuring and Challenges to Citizenship Part III: The Reform Coalition 6. Market Philanthropy in Education7. The Choice Machine and the Road to Privatization (co-authored with Key MacFarlane)Part IV: Geographies of Resistance, Acts of Citizenship8. Taking Back our Schools and Cities9. Conclusion: Paying Deep AttentionNotesIndex