Educating A Working Society

Author : Glenn P. Lauzon
Publisher : IAP
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781641134439

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Educating a Working Society by Glenn P. Lauzon Pdf

The future looks promising for the field of career and technical education (CTE). The Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 eases the way to create multiple pathways for high school students to get to college and careers. Philanthropic foundations are funding innovations in career preparation. State departments of education are revamping program guidelines and graduation requirements. In many states, governors have made career preparation a priority. While people plan CTE’s future, Educating a Working Society looks to its past. This book explores twentieth-century efforts to bring schooling and work closer together. Chapters feature timely topics, such as public controversy over vocational programs, the influences of racism in philanthropic giving, students’ choices in course taking, teachers’ efforts to combine the academic and vocational missions of schooling, and contemporary trends in college and career readiness initiatives. Using schools to prepare youth for work has a long and troubled history. The contributors to this book dive into that history, bringing up compelling issues that challenge conventional wisdom about the history of education.

Author : Tracey Wilen-Daugenti
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 143311691X

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Society 3.0 by Tracey Wilen-Daugenti Pdf

Higher education in the U.S. has traditionally prepared students for work and social success, but with families, work, and society itself undergoing revolutionary change, is this preparation sufficient to develop the 21st-century workforce? This book explores how evolving family structures, new ways of balancing work and personal lives, and rapid technological advancements will transform the ways that U.S. colleges and universities develop well-educated, career-oriented citizens. Society 3.0 will help higher education providers and industry leaders understand these potentially disruptive variables and design appropriate programs and career paths for tomorrow's workers. The book presents and explores the following insights: - A wider range of family members, not just older children, now attend college, a decision that shapes - and is shaped by - 21st-century demographics. - Older students, recognizing degrees as vital for competing in the global workforce, now outnumber those entering college before starting careers. - Today's workers are increasingly likely to be women, working outside the office or self-employed, or applying their education to innovation and entrepreneurship as small business owners. - Technology is remaking the campus experience via smartphone learning apps, social networking among professors and students, and immersive engagement in virtual worlds - and even games. Society 3.0 will provide higher education and industry stakeholders a guide for understanding the emerging societal forces that are shaping the future.

Author : Randall Collins
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231549783

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The Credential Society by Randall Collins Pdf

The Credential Society is a classic on the role of higher education in American society and an essential text for understanding the reproduction of inequality. Controversial at the time, Randall Collins’s claim that the expansion of American education has not increased social mobility, but rather created a cycle of credential inflation, has proven remarkably prescient. Collins shows how credential inflation stymies mass education’s promises of upward mobility. An unacknowledged spiral of the rising production of credentials and job requirements was brought about by the expansion of high school and then undergraduate education, with consequences including grade inflation, rising educational costs, and misleading job promises dangled by for-profit schools. Collins examines medicine, law, and engineering to show the ways in which credentialing closed these high-status professions to new arrivals. In an era marked by the devaluation of high school diplomas, outcry about the value of expensive undergraduate degrees, and the proliferation of new professional degrees like the MBA, The Credential Society has more than stood the test of time. In a new preface, Collins discusses recent developments, debunks claims that credentialization is driven by technological change, and points to alternative pathways for the future of education.

Author : James Arthur,Julia Cleverdon,Nicky Morgan,James O'Shaughnessy,Anthony Seldon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000227550

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Educating for a Characterful Society by James Arthur,Julia Cleverdon,Nicky Morgan,James O'Shaughnessy,Anthony Seldon Pdf

The UK National Curriculum states that schools should reaffirm commitment to the virtues of truth, justice, honesty, trust and a sense of duty. This aim, loosely defined as 'character' education, is widely agreed to be critical to healthy development and a fair, just and democratic society. But what exactly is 'character' and how best to educate for it? This vitally important book, written by five internationally prominent figures and government advisers, aims to answer that question. Accessibly written and brimming with inspirational ideas, it looks at questions of research, education, government policy and societal engagement with character, including in the light of COVID-19 and the huge debt owed to the public services frontline. This book is a fascinating and vital read for parents, teachers and anyone concerned with social justice, developing the energy and passion of young people and working towards a better, stronger, fairer society. This could very well be the most important book you read all year!

Author : Michael W. Apple
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415875325

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Can Education Change Society? by Michael W. Apple Pdf

In this groundbreaking work, Apple pushes educators toward a more substantial understanding of what schools do and what we can do to challenge the relations of dominance and subordination in the larger society.

Author : Jeanne H. Ballantine,Joan Z. Spade
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452275833

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Schools and Society: A Sociological Approach to Education by Jeanne H. Ballantine,Joan Z. Spade Pdf

Undergraduate students of the sociology of education, education and society and education studies.

Author : Sverker Lindblad,Daniel Pettersson,Thomas S. Popkewitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351586085

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Education by the Numbers and the Making of Society by Sverker Lindblad,Daniel Pettersson,Thomas S. Popkewitz Pdf

International statistical comparisons of nations have become commonplace in the contemporary landscape of education policy and social science. This book discusses the emergence of these international comparisons as a particular style of reasoning about education, society and science. By examining how international educational assessments have come to dominate much of contemporary policymaking concerning school system performance, the authors provide concrete case studies highlighting the preeminent role of numbers in furthering neoliberal education reform. Demonstrating how numbers serve as ‘rationales’ to shape and fashion social issues, this text opens new avenues for thinking about institutional and epistemological factors that produce and shape educational policy, research and schooling in transnational contexts.

Author : Rachel Brooks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350314498

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Education and Society by Rachel Brooks Pdf

This new textbook offers a wide-ranging discussion of the key debates within the sociology of education. Covering everything from policymaking and the curriculum, to class, ethnicity and gender, and the ways that they and other social divisions intersect to produce inequalities, this timely publication provides a much-needed contribution to the study of education's vital role in contemporary society. With examples drawn from such diverse contexts as Australian pre-schools, Finnish higher education institutions and English further education colleges, the text presents students with an international perspective and encourages them to engage critically with some of the core questions that lie at the heart of the topic: what is the purpose of education? who decides what formal education entails? and what impact does education have on both society and individuals? Rachel Brooks's extensive knowledge of decades of scholarly work in education and sociology ensures the book is academically rigorous throughout, while the final chapter on emerging educational research means it is fully up to date. The text's accessible style is ideally suited to all those new to the topic and studying the sociology of education for the first time, whether this be from departments of sociology, childhood studies, social policy, or a range of other social science disciplines.

Author : John Dewey
Publisher : HOLISTENCE PUBLICATIONS
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9786256646407

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The School and Society by John Dewey Pdf

Author : Andrew Kenneth Cosway Ottaway
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Education
ISBN : 0415177545

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Education and Society by Andrew Kenneth Cosway Ottaway Pdf

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Robert Halpern
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Adolescence
ISBN : 1612505376

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Youth, Education, and the Role of Society by Robert Halpern Pdf

Examines the "learning landscape" currently available to American adolescents, arguing that we need to expand, enrich, and diversify the learning opportunities available to young people today. Central to the book is Robert Halpern's view that we depend too exclusively on schools to meet the full range of young people's developmental needs.

Author : Robert Eugene Yager
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0791427692

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Science/Technology/Society as Reform in Science Education by Robert Eugene Yager Pdf

Science/Technology/Society (S/T/S) is a reform effort to broaden science as a discipline in schools and colleges; to relate science to other facets of the curriculum; and to relate science specifically to technology and to the society that supports and produces new conceptualizations of both. S/T/S is also defined as the teaching and learning of science/technology in the context of human experience. It focuses on a method of teaching that recognizes the importance that experience in the real world has on the learning process. And it recognizes that real learning can occur only when the learner is engaged and able to construct her or his own meaning. Science/Technology/Society As Reform in Science Education is rich with examples of such teaching and learning. It includes impressive research evidence that illustrates that progress has been made and goals have been met. For teachers and administrators alike, this book provides and validates new visions for science education.

Author : American Education Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1046 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Congregational churches
ISBN : HARVARD:AH3J2C

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Report of the Directors of the American Education Society by American Education Society Pdf

Author : Maris Vinovskis
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0300062699

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Education, Society, and Economic Opportunity by Maris Vinovskis Pdf

In this book, an eminent educational historian examines some important aspects of American schooling over the past centuries, illuminating the relation between education and other broad changes in American society and providing a historical perspective for contemporary efforts at school reform. Maris Vinovskis critically reviews and integrates recent work in educational history and provides new research on neglected topics. He discusses such issues as: the gradual shift from the family to the public schools in the responsibility for educating the young; the rise and fall of infant schools between 1840 and 1860; the crisis in the teaching of morality in the public schools of the mid-nineteenth century; early efforts to provide schooling for impoverished children; and the evolution of the belief that education improves individual economic and social mobility. He also studies school attendance and discovers that a much higher percentage of children may have attended public high schools in the nineteenth century than has been assumed, investigates when the practice of placing children in grades according to their age became widespread, and assesses whether different age groups in previous eras varied in their support for schooling--as they seem to be doing now.

Author : W. B. Stephens
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Education
ISBN : 0719022371

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Education, Literacy, and Society, 1830-70 by W. B. Stephens Pdf