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Understanding Education and Economics: Key Debates and Critical Perspectives book cover

1st Edition

Understanding Education and Economics Key Debates and Critical Perspectives

Edited By Jessie Bustillos Morales, Sandra Abegglen Copyright 2020
138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge
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Understanding Education and Economics explores the multiple ways in which the field of education and schooling has become closely aligned with economic imperatives and interests, and the impact of this on learning and teaching. In particular, the increasing influence of economic arguments, economic ideologies and government involvement in education have made apparent that there is a need to... Read more

Contents

1. Introduction: How can we make sense of the influence of economics in education?

Jessie A. Bustillos Morales and Sandra Abegglen - London Metropolitan University

2 Historicizing the education of Economics and its methods

Esther Mirjam Sent - Department of Economics, Radboud University, Sam de Muijnck - Department of Economics, Radboud University, Roel Grol - Department of Education, HAN University of Applied Sciences

3 Mass Elementary Schooling and an Economic History of Childhood

David Blundell - London Metropolitan University

4 The fading away of learning and the rise of economic imperatives

Dr Stuart Isaacs - London Metropolitan University

5 Problematising education as ‘useful for the economy’ Eleonora Pedron - Comunità Filosofica Femminile Diotima, University of Verona

6 A Bernsteinian analysis of economic ideologies present in educational policies

Victor Pitsoe, Dr Moeketsi Letseka, Matsephe Martha Letseka - College of Education, University of South Africa (UNISA)

7 Illusions of ‘choice’

Kelly Power - King’s College London

8 Inequalities, Precariousness and Education: Schooling Precarious Workers

Brian McDonough - London Metropolitan University

9 Universities: Knowledge, the Market and the State

Stephen Ward - Bath Spa University

10 An exploration of human capital theory and its impact on the world of education

Halil Buyruk - University of Ankara

11 Problematising Work in Schooling

Erin Adams - Kennesaw State University

12 Undoing the co-opting of education through a humanizing pedagogy: a Pakistani case study

Areesha Banglani - Utrecht University

13 Infant masculinities, economic discourses and human flourishment in the field of education

Maria de Eguia Huerta - Central University of Catalonia

14 Conclusion: What does economics offer to the analysis of education?

Jessie A. Bustillos Morales and Sandra Abegglen - London Metropolitan University

Biography

Jessie A. Bustillos Morales is a senior lecturer in Education Studies and course leader of Education and Social Policy at London Metropolitan University, UK.

Sandra Abegglen is a researcher at the University of Calgary, Canada.

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