Making workers : radical geographies of education / Katharyne Mitchell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitchell, Katharyne, author.

Series:

Radical geography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational sociology.

Educational psychology.

Capitalism and education.

Physical Description:

viii, 188 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, [2018]

Summary:

As globalization transforms the organization of society, so too is its impact fell in the classroom. Katharyne Mitchell argues that schools are spaces in which neoliberal practices are brought to bear on the lives of children. Education's narratives, actors, and institutions play a pivotal role in the social and political formation of youth as workers in a capitalist economy. Mitchell looks at the formation of student identity and allegiance-as well as spaces of resistance. She investigates the transition to educational narratives emphasizing flexibility and strategic global entrepreneurialism and examines the role of education in a broader political project of producing new generations of economically insecure but compliant workers. Scrutinizing the impact of an influx of new actors, practices, and policies, Mitchell argues that public education is the latest institution to embrace the neoliberal logic of "choice"-pertaining to schools, faculty, and curricula-that, if unchallenged, will lead to further incursions of the market, and increased socioeconomic inequality. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Geographies of Work and Education

1 Spatial Divisions of Labor and the Search for Jobs 3

2 Creating the Entrepreneurial Child 25

Part II Flexible Work, Strategic Workers

3 From Multicultural Citizen to Global Businessman 45

4 Geographies of Lifelong Learning and the Knowledge Economy / Key MacFarlane MacFarlane, Key 67

5 Global Restructuring and Challenges to Citizenship 83

Part III The Reform Coalition

6 Market Philanthropy in Education 99

7 The Choice Machine and the Road to Privatization / Key MacFarlane MacFarlane, Key 119

Part IV Geographies of Resistance, Acts of Citizenship

8 Taking Back Our Schools and Cities 139

9 Conclusion: Paying Deep Attention 157.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-181) and index.

ISBN:

9780745399850

0745399851

9780745399874

0745399878

OCLC:

979568327