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School and Society: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

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Through the use of a consistent analytic framework, this text shows how and why certain school-society issues first arose in this country and how they have changed over time. Introduced and explained in detail in the first chapter, the text's analytic framework focuses on the political economy, the dominant ideology, and existing educational practices that are prevalent in...more
Paperback, 462 pages
Published July 28th 2008 by McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua
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Jien
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This was a required textbook for an education policy course and it was absolutely terrible. Really really bad. The authors' biases poked through at every opportunity and the filtering of information to convince the reader of a single point of view was just sickening for this type of subject. We should be presented with all the material and allowed to make our own decisions, instead it provided a very one-sided view of all the topics. Opposing views were only shared to discredit themselves. I did...more
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