Education, Policy and Social Justice: Learning and Skills

by James Avis

Book Overview

James Avis develops an important argument in this wide-ranging book, in which questions of social justice play a central role. He explores the socio-economic and policy context of education in advanced capitalist societies, and indicates the manner in which the rhetoric of policy-makers distorts the way in which skill is marshalled in the economy. The result is that oppressive and exploitative features of paid labour are underplayed in this rhetoric...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441166424
• ISBN13: 9781441166425
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"