Contradictions of Control: School Structure and School Knowledge

by Linda M. McNeil

Book Overview

McNeil traces the poor quality of high school instruction t the tensions between the social control purposes of schooling and the schools' educational goals. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0710202466
• ISBN13: 9780710202468
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.

Customer Reviews

If schools make you depressed, this book begins to explain why

It has been a while since I read this book and plan to re-read it again. If you are uncomfortable about a school experience and you can't find the words or the concepts to express your ideas, this is a place to start. I don't know if it is the best book on the subject, but it is worth your time to build a structured overview for all the concepts that you later will strive to understand why schooling can be oppressive and counterproductive causing a sense of dread while entering or leaving the front door.