Retooling the Mind Factory

Alan Sears is Professor of Sociology at Ryerson University. He is the author of The New Left: A History of the Future (2014) and co-author with James Cairns of The Democratic Imagination: Envisioning Popular Power in the Twenty-First Century (2012).

• Introduction: Education in a Lean State"The System is Broken": Legitimizing Education ChangeA Revolution in Common SenseCultural Revolution and CitizenshipSocial Policy of the Lean StateEducation Reform for a Lean WorldThe Critique of Liberal EducationTheoretical FoundationsMethod of Historical SociologyNotesChapter 1: The Embrace of the StateEntering the StateEducation Before the Welfare StateThe Broad Welfare State and Educational ExpansionElementary Schools: Engaging the IndividualSecondary Schools: There's a Place for UsPost-Secondary Education: Increasing AccessAccess to UniversitiesA New Point of Access: Colleges and PolytechnicsThe End of Growth?NotesChapter 2: Education for an Information Age?Skills for the Information Age?Skills and Lean ProductionNew Kinds of Problem-solving?Standards Not SkillsStreaming and Labour Market PolarizationThe Ideology of TrainingLean DisciplineThe Vocationalist EthosSkills Planning in a 'Free' MarketUndermining the Culture of CitizenshipDeveloping a Market OrientationNotesChapter 3: Education for the NationEducational Optimism and the Broad Welfare StateSeeing Like a State?Making National CultureScience and National CultureCulture in a Lean StateThe Cultural Industries After National CultureScience After History?Innovation CultureScience as Innovation CultureThe Culture of EntrepreneurshipConclusionNotesChapter 4: Education, Citizenship and InequalityIntroduction: Education for Equity?W.E.B. Du Bois on Education for FreedomEducation and the Contradictions of CitizenshipEquity and Education ReformEducation and RacializationOfficial Multiculturalism: The Highest Stage of LiberalismPost-Liberal Education: Standards and RacializationNotesChapter 5: Education: Gender and SexualityEducation and Gender EquityGender in a Lean WorldGender and the Broad Welfare StateMasculinity in Mass ProductionDomestic FemininityChildhood and School in the Welfare StateShifting Gender RelationsGender and Post-Liberal EducationA Note of Schooling for Sexuality NotesChapter 6: Children of the MarketChildhood in a Lean WorldContinuous ImprovementInequality and PolarizationFear the ChildrenThe Market OrientationClosing Extra-Economic SpaceCommodifying Education SpaceTeaching Enterprise CultureKnowledge as a CommodityMarket Mechanisms in EducationTowards Lean EducationNotesChapter 7: Learning FreedomFighting BackTeachers on the Front LineTeacher-bashing and Education ReformMobilizing Against the Harris AgendaFightbacks by Other Education Workers, High School Students and ParentsFightbacks in the Post-Secondary SectorTowards Education for FreedomBrecht on Teaching and LearningMind and BodyMaking the Familiar StrangeArt and Science TogetherSocial Movements and Ways of KnowingIs Brecht Useful?Active Learning for a ChangeNotesBibliographyIndex