Can Education Change Society?

by Michael W. Apple

Book Overview

Despite the vast differences between the Right and the Left over the role of education in the production of inequality one common element both sides share is a sense that education can and should do something about society, to either restore what is being lost or radically alter what is there now. The question was perhaps put most succinctly by the radical educator George Counts in 1932 when he asked "Dare the School Build a New Social...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415875331
• ISBN13: 9780415875332
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"