1st Edition

Contradictions of Control School Structure and School Knowledge

By Linda M. McNeil Copyright 1986
260 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

McNeil traces the poor quality of high school instruction t the tensions between the social control purposes of schooling and the schools' educational goals.

r

Biography

Linda M McNeil (LMM Technologies, Marin Station, Maryland, USA) (Author)

"Professor McNeil presents a powerful indictment of the `control' mentality that continues to plague American education--often under the banner of reform." -- Albert Shanker, President, The American Federation of Teachers