Mass Education Global Capital and the World                            Marxism and Education
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan; Springer; Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781137014818
Description: "Immanuel Wallerstein and István Mészáros are prolific scholars whose analyses of global capitalism in crisis offer distinctive insight for research across the social sciences. This book engages readers with their main theses, encouraging the application of these in our analysis of social reality and as its mass educational institutions. Griffiths and Imre undertake this task in their presentation of work under the capitalist world-economy, and the official function of mass education to prepare workers for the global economy. They develop a timely and provocative critique of mass education for this century, challenging readers to contribute to the construction of radical alternatives"--