Growing Up Modern: The Western State Builds Third World Schools - Couverture rigide

Fuller, Bruce

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0415902274 ISBN 13 : 9780415902274

Editeur : Routledge, 1991

Synopsis

Western governments have a deep and unquestioning faith in the miraculous power of mass schooling to change society. In First and Third Worlds alike, the modern state pushes tirelessly to expand mass education and to strengthen the school's effect upon children. This book explores why, how and with what actual effects, politicians, bureaucrats and civic elite groups attempt to spread schooling to younger children, older adults and previously disenfranchised groups. The author argues that the school provides an institutional stage on which political actors signal various, sometimes contradictory, ideals, for example, a broadening membership in the polity, promises of mass opportunity in the wage sector and a deepening of a presumed commitment to the child's individual development. He advances a theory of the "fragile state" where Western political expectations and organizations are placed within pluralistic Third World settings. Using South Africa as an example, the author details the dilemmas faced by the central state, how it tries to influence local schools and what the results are within the classroom. This book is intended to be of interest to educational researchers and those concerned with sociology, politics and policy and development studies.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The modern state – First and Third Worlds alike – pushes tirelessly to expand mass education and to deepen the schools’ effect upon children. First published in 1991, Growing-Up Modern explores why, how, and with what actual effects state actors so vehemently pursue this dual political agenda.

Bruce Fuller first delves into the motivations held by politicians, education bureaucrats and civic elites as they earnestly seek to spread schooling to younger children, older adults and previously disenfranchised groups. Fuller argues that the school provides an institutional stage on which political actors signal their ideals and the coming of greater modernity; broadening membership in the polity, promising mass opportunity in the wage sector, intensifying modern (bureaucratic) forms of school management, and deepening a presumed commitment to the child’s individual development.

Fuller advances a theory of the ‘fragile state’ where Western political expectations and organisations are placed within pluralistic Third World settings, using southern Africa as an example of the dilemmas faced by the central state.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0415902274
• ISBN 13: 9780415902274
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible