1st Edition
Education and the Culture of Consumption Personalisation and the Social Order
By David Hartley
Copyright 2012
160 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
160 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
160 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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For nearly 200 years the organisational form of the school has changed little. Bureaucracy has been its enduring form. The school has prepared the worker for the factory of mass production. It has created the 'mass consumer' to be content with accepting what is on offer, not what is wanted. However, a ‘revised’ educational code appears to be emerging. This code centres upon the concept of... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Modernity, Production and Education 3. Financial crisis 2008: surfacing contradictions 4. Markets, Bureaucracy and Education 5. Towards the Personalisation of Education 6. Consumption, Personalisation and Education Policy 7. Personalised Learning 8. The Paradox of Personalisation 9. Personalisation and the social order 10. Code Switch? Education and the personalised society
Biography
David Hartley is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Education, University of Oxford, UK.
