Simulation, Spectacle, and the Ironies of Education Reform

by Ralph Page and Guy Senese

As long as there is good money to be made from ignoring or cultivating the ignorance of working people, education for their children in the best sense is going to be a difficult goal. This book delineates in three case studies how our main myths of emancipation and upward mobility work as images of delusion. The frontier of space, the arena of sports, and the goal of employment, all essential elements in the discourse of reform, provide big windows...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897894022
• ISBN13: 9780897894029
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"