
Changing classes
school reform and the new economy
Edición de la obra Changing classes
| Autor | Martin J Packer |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Cambridge University Press |
| Fecha de publicación | 2001 |
| Lugar | Cambridge, New York |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 313 |
| ISBN-10 | 0521642345, 0521645409 |
| OCLC | 43569310 |
| LCCN | 00026199 |
| Serie | Learning in doing :Social, cognitive, and computational perpectives · Learning in doing |
| Número de Cutter | P119c |
"Changing Classes tells the story of a small, poor, ethnically mixed school district in Michigan's rust belt, a community in turmoil over the announced closing of a nearby auto assembly plant. As teachers and administrators began to find ways to make schooling more relevant to working-class children, two large-scale school reform initiatives swept into town: the governor's "marketplace" reforms and the National Science Foundation's "State Systemic Initiative." All this is set against the backdrop of the transformation to a global, post-Fordist economy. The result is an account of the complex linkages at work as society structures the development of children to adulthood."--Jacket.