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Between Capitalism and Democracy - Educational Policy and the Crisis of the Welfare State (Hardcover, New)
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Between Capitalism and Democracy - Educational Policy and the Crisis of the Welfare State (Hardcover, New)
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This volume of radical studies in the sociology and politics of
education specifically addresses educational policies and the
crisis of the welfare state--one of the central political facts of
our time--and opens up new areas in the critical social analysis of
education. Shapiro explores the interconnection between educational
policy and the structure of economic, political, and cultural life
in the United States, arguing that in spite of its practical and
ideological autonomy, the educational region is not immune to the
kinds of disruption and dislocation found elsewhere in society.
Minority discrimination, urban decay, and the uneven results of the
labor market as well as other conditions force new issues and
questions onto the ideological policy agenda. However, in his
cogent assesment of the state of public discourse, Shapiro
discovers an absence, with one important exception, of reference to
critical themes in mainstream political debate. He delineates the
displacement into the educational area of crises that confront the
lumpen class in America and that are experienced as economic
deprivation, political disempowerment, and cultural disintegration
and then speculates as to why a political agenda that speaks to the
interrelatedness of the social crisis and the educational crisis
remains unconstructed. The bulk of the eight chapters study a
proposed political agenda for education that is resonant with the
cultural concerns and social needs of subordinate and intermediary
groups--a left agenda--that addresses three key areas: first, the
crisis of values and meanings that consumption capitalism makes
inevitable; second, the sense of disempowerment experienced by both
subordinate and intermediary groups in American society; and
finally, the issue of social justice based on the author's
creatively expanded definition of the issues inherent to this
concept including hunger here and abroad, the distribution of
wealth and economic power, inadequate supply of shelter and medical
care, and infant mortality. This important work with its invaluable
analyses and proposals should be read by those concerned with the
possibilities of radical intervention in public education during a
period of conservative restoration. Must reading for students and
scholars concerned with both the social analysis and critical study
of education.
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