Growing-Up Modern - The Western State Builds Third-World Schools (Paperback)

The modern state - First and Third Worlds alike - pushes tirelessly to expand mass education and to deepen the schools' effect upon children. First published in 1991, Growing-Up Modern explores why, how, and with what actual effects state actors so vehemently pursue this dual political agenda. Bruce Fuller first delves into the motivations held by politicians, education bureaucrats and civic elites as they earnestly seek to spread schooling to younger children, older adults and previously disenfranchised groups. Fuller argues that the school provides an institutional stage on which political actors signal their ideals and the coming of greater modernity; broadening membership in the polity, promising mass opportunity in the wage sector, intensifying modern (bureaucratic) forms of school management, and deepening a presumed commitment to the child's individual development. Fuller advances a theory of the 'fragile state' where Western political expectations and organisations are placed within pluralistic Third World settings, using southern Africa as an example of the dilemmas faced by the central state.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: Development
Release date:	April 2015
First published:	2011
Authors:	Bruce Fuller
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	196
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-86566-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > Central government policies
LSN:	1-138-86566-4
Barcode:	9781138865662

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