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The Education Gospel : The Economic Power of Schooling / Marvin Lazerson, W. Norton Grubb.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (334 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780674037984
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.4/737
LOC classification:
  • LC66 ǂb G78 2004eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Believers and Dissenters -- 1. Transforming the High School -- 2. Professionalism in Higher Education -- 3. Dilemmas of the Community College -- 4. Second Chances inJob Training and Adult Education -- 5. The American Approach to Vocationalism -- 6. The Public and Private Benefits of Schooling -- 7. The Ambiguities of Separating Schooling and Work -- 8. The Evolution of Inequality -- 9. Vocationalism and the Education Gospel in the Twenty-First Century -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: In this hard-hitting history of "the gospel of education," W. Norton Grubb and Marvin Lazerson reveal the allure, and the fallacy, of the longstanding American faith that more schooling for more people is the remedy for all our social and economic problems--and that the central purpose of education is workplace preparation. But do increasing levels of education accurately represent the demands of today's jobs? Grubb and Lazerson argue that the abilities developed in schools and universities and the competencies required in work are often mismatched--since many Americans are under-educated for serious work while at least a third are over-educated for the jobs they hold. The ongoing race for personal advancement and the focus on worker preparation have squeezed out civic education and learning for its own sake. Paradoxically, the focus on schooling as a mechanism of equity has reinforced social inequality. The challenge now, the authors show, is to create environments for learning that incorporate both economic and civic goals, and to prevent the further descent of education into a preoccupation with narrow work skills and empty credentials.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Believers and Dissenters -- 1. Transforming the High School -- 2. Professionalism in Higher Education -- 3. Dilemmas of the Community College -- 4. Second Chances inJob Training and Adult Education -- 5. The American Approach to Vocationalism -- 6. The Public and Private Benefits of Schooling -- 7. The Ambiguities of Separating Schooling and Work -- 8. The Evolution of Inequality -- 9. Vocationalism and the Education Gospel in the Twenty-First Century -- Notes -- References -- Index

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In this hard-hitting history of "the gospel of education," W. Norton Grubb and Marvin Lazerson reveal the allure, and the fallacy, of the longstanding American faith that more schooling for more people is the remedy for all our social and economic problems--and that the central purpose of education is workplace preparation. But do increasing levels of education accurately represent the demands of today's jobs? Grubb and Lazerson argue that the abilities developed in schools and universities and the competencies required in work are often mismatched--since many Americans are under-educated for serious work while at least a third are over-educated for the jobs they hold. The ongoing race for personal advancement and the focus on worker preparation have squeezed out civic education and learning for its own sake. Paradoxically, the focus on schooling as a mechanism of equity has reinforced social inequality. The challenge now, the authors show, is to create environments for learning that incorporate both economic and civic goals, and to prevent the further descent of education into a preoccupation with narrow work skills and empty credentials.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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