The Political Construction of Education: The State, School Expansion, and Economic Change

by Bruce Fuller

Book Overview

Political actors within the modern state--in both the West and the Third World--argue that more schooling can provide remedies for a variety of economic and social ills. But what is the state's actual efficacy in sparking demands for, and constructing effective forms of, mass schooling? Is the state really an effective agent relative to educational demands originating from other institutions: competing economic interests, the family, and the school...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027593831X
• ISBN13: 9780275938314
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"