1st Edition
Culture and the Political Economy of Schooling What's Left for Education?
Introduction
Chapter One: Education and the crisis
Chapter Two: The political economy of schooling
Chapter Three: The uses of cultural schooling in English schooling
Chapter Four: What about the working class?
Chapter Five: How English is it?
Chapter Six: Schooling and the Brave New Worlds of work
Chapter Seven: The dangerous rise of the creative educational class
Chapter Eight: Rethinking educational inequality with Thomas Piketty and friends
Chapter Nine: What every educator needs to know about the environment
Chapter 10: Components of a national curriculum
Conclusion: What’s left for education?
Biography
John Morgan is Professor of Education at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Education, culture, economy – and the environment! A bracing, thoroughly engaged account of public schooling, drawing explicitly on both cultural studies and political economy, this book takes us back to the future and opens up rich possibilities for rethinking education in and for the Anthropocene, as a ‘socialist-realist’ project. Highly recommended.
Emeritus Professor Bill Green, Charles Sturt University, Australia
HG Wells famously observed that the story of humankind resembles "more and more a race between education and catastrophe". John Morgan’s brilliant book opens up this proposition with a confident and very engaging voice. He presents a clear explanation of why and how the idea of education has been narrowed and (to his occasional disgruntlement) the failure of researchers and practitioners alike to recognise the consequences. Whilst the book understandably stops short of providing a radical blueprint for change, John Morgan’s scholarship enables a deeper understanding of the role of schools in contemporary society, and what needs to be addressed to avert catastrophe.
David Lambert, Professor of Geography Education at UCL Institute of Education
