The (Dis)Order of U.S. Schooling - Zygmunt Bauman and Education for an Ambivalent World (Hardcover)

This book critically interrogates the function of schooling in the United States of America using the writings of sociologist Zygmunt Bauman. Asking whether the function is to produce citizens, workers, a combination of the two, or something altogether different, it argues that the designs of schooling are part of a carefully crafted ordering, illustrated via an analysis of the ways in which schooling introduces students to various forms of coercion and seduction that socialize students in particular ways: ways that support an order. By engaging with the prolific and insightful works of one of the most prominent social thinkers of the 21st century, this book considers schooling and its contributions to order. Be they solid or liquid modern ordering mechanisms, ordering through repression and seduction, or supporting ordering through the creation of boundaries separating an "orderly inside" from its "disorderly outside"; schools imperfectly support the construction of order and in doing so, privilege some representations and individuals over others. To order is to harness ambivalence and steer it in directions that privilege the "in" group at the expense of the "out" group; and schools, from the curriculum they teach to the values and ideas they promote, are desirable captive marketplaces instrumental in steering this ambivalence. The author ultimately suggests that the function of schools, whether recognized or not, are not so much to educate students to be free thinkers, but rather to be orderly cogs in a particular functional social machine. As such, it will be of interest to faculty, scholars and postgraduate-level students with interests in the sociology of education, schooling, sociology, and social theory.

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Research in the Sociology of Education
Release date:	May 2023
First published:	2023
Authors:	Eric Ferris
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	264
ISBN-13:	978-1-03-245063-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social theory Books > Social sciences > Education > Philosophy of education Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Promotions
LSN:	1-03-245063-0
Barcode:	9781032450636

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