The lost dream of equality
Subtitle: critical essays on education and social class
By: edited by Alan Scott and John Freeman-Moir.
Contributors: Scott, Alan, 1948-; Freeman-Moir, D. John.
Series: Educational futures -- v. 5
Publisher: Sense Publishers
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Rotterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9789087900212; 9789087900229
Subjects: Education -- Social aspects.; Social classes.; Educational equalization.; Working class -- Education.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Introduction / Alan Scott and John Freeman-Moir; value: What dreams may come? Class struggle and the supplanting of the ideology of equality of opportunity in Australian education / Kelvin McQueen and Scott Poynting; value: Class mobility and university education : the inter-generational talent gap in Canada / D.W. Livingstone and S.L. Stowe; value: Dreaming in the real world : social class and education in New Zealand / Roy Nash; value: South African education and the race/class relationship / John Davies; value: Reproduction, reproduction, reproduction : troubling dominant discourses on education and social class in the United Kingdom / Diane Reay; value: Schooling and social class in post-World War 2 United States of America : a survey of major features / John D. Holst; value: After the box people : the labor-capital relation as class constitution and its consequences for Marxist educational theory and human resistance / Paula Allman, Peter McLaren and Glenn Rikowski; value: Creating difference : neo-liberalism, neo-conservatism and the politics of educational reform / Michael W. Apple; value: Against schooling : education and social class / Stanley Aronowitz; value: A house made of words : class, education and dissidence in three lives / Elizabeth A. Kelly; value: Education, class and economic competitiveness / Hugh Lauder and Phillip Brown; value: Poststructuralism and Marxism : education as knowledge capitalism / Michael Peters.