Title: A radical democratic critique of capitalist education /
Authors: Brosio, Richard A.
Publisher: P. Lang,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Education Political aspects United States; Education Economic aspects United States; Education and state United States.; Capitalism United States; Critical pedagogy United States.
Contents: The Janus-faced Public Schools in the United States -- The Role of the State in Contemporary Capitalist and Democratic Societies: Accent, the United States -- Adam Smith's Theory of Capitalism: The Critiques of Rousseau and Marx -- The Regime of Capital: Myth and Reality -- Schumpeter's Apologia Contrasted to Rousseau's and Marx's Radical Democracy -- The Consequences of the Capitalist Imperative on Everyday Life -- Capitalism's Mediated Influence within School Sites: Correspondence Theory and Empirical Description -- Recent Attempts to Strengthen the Capitalist Imperative upon Schools in the United States -- Eruptions of the Democratic Eruptions, Reaction and the Power of the Status Quo -- Radical Theoretical Underpinnings for Democracry's Imperative upon Schools, as Contrasted to Actual Agency -- Democratic Theory and Practice: Dewey and Beyond -- The Challenge of Postmodernism to The Enlightenment and Its Democratic Legacy -- Postmodernism as the Cultural Skin of Late Capitalism: Educational Consequences