Schooling, Childhood, and Bureaucracy [electronic resource] : Bureaucratizing the Child /
Waters, T.author.
In exploring the relationship between bureaucratic schooling and the individual child, Waters describes the persistence of educational inequality, child development, and the nature of bureaucracy. The conclusions point out how education bureaucracies frame both schooling and childhood as they relentlessly seek to create ever more perfect children.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Bureaucratizing the Child: The Manufacture of Adults in the Modern World; 2 American Mass Public Education and the Modern World; 3 Bureaucratized Childhood and the Persistence of Schooling Systems: Irrationality in Rationality; 4 Behaviorism, Developmentalism, and Bureaucracy: Leaky First Graders, Defiant Teenagers, Jocks, Nerds, and the Business Model
5 The Sorting Function of Schools: Institutionalized Privilege and Why Harvard Is a Social Problem for Both the Middle Class and Public School 65 in the Bronx6 Teachers, Parents, and the Teaching Profession: The Miracle of Bureaucratized Love; 7 The Child Savers; 8 Seeing Like a State: Efficiency, Calculability, Predictivity, Control, Testing Regimes, and School Administration; 9 The Limits of the Modern American School: Rock, Paper, Scissors (Equality, Individualism, Utilitarianism); 10 The Modern World and Mass Public Education: Bureaucratized Schools around the World
Appendix: Schooling without Habitus: Refugee Camps11 Why School Reform Will Always Be with Us: Emotion and Rationalization; 12 From Spoiled Blueberries to Classical Social Theory; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In exploring the relationship between bureaucratic schooling and the individual child, Waters describes the persistence of educational inequality, child development, and the nature of bureaucracy. The conclusions point out how education bureaucracies frame both schooling and childhood as they relentlessly seek to create ever more perfect children.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Educational policy.
Education and state.
Education.
Social sciences.
Educational sociology.
Educational sociology .
Education and sociology.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Educational Policy and Politics.
Education, general.
Methodology of the Social Sciences.
Sociology of Education.
Sociology of Education.