How Do We Tell The Workers?: The Socioeconomic Foundations Of Work And Vocational Education / Edition 1

by Joe Kincheloe

Overview

This book analyzes the ways that workers are 'educated,' via a variety of institutions, to fit into the contemporary labor-unfriendly economic system. As he examines the history and purposes of vocational education, Kincheloe illustrates the manner in which this education shapes the politics of the era. How Do We Tell the Workers? is important reading for policy makers, labor leaders, and educators.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813387376
Publisher:	Westview Press
Publication date:	09/01/1998
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1360L (what's this?)

About the Author

Joe L. Kincheloe is professor of urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center and Brooklyn College. He is the author of more than 30 books and hundreds of articles. His most recent works include Critical Pedagogy: A Primer, and The Sign of the Burger: McDonald's and the Culture of Power. Kincheloe and Shirley Steinberg have recently finished 19 Urban Questions: Teaching in the City.

Table of Contents

Foreword — The Nature of Work — A Sense of Purpose — Modernism and the Evolution of the Technocratic Mind — Power and the Development of the Modernist Economy — Good Work, Bad Work, and the Debate over Ethical Labor — The Historical Dimensions of Vocational Education — The Origins of Vocational Education — The Progressive Debate, the Victory of Vocationalism, and the Institutionalization of Schooling for Work — Failures and Reforms: The Recent History of Vocational Education — Coping with and Directing Change — Post-Fordism and Technopower: The Changing Economic and Political Arena — Democratic Post-Fordist Workplaces and Debating the Changing Purposes of Vocational Education — Confronting and Rethinking Educational Theory: Critical Vocational Pedagogy and Workers as Researchers — Race, Class, and Gender — Plausible Deniability: The Skeleton in Vocational Education's Closet — A Touch of Class — Accounting for Gender — Howlin' Wolf at the Door: Race, Racism, and Vocational Education — The Role of Labor and Unions in Vocational Education — Democratic Unionism in the Global Economy and Corporate-Directed Vocational Education — The New Unionism and the Struggle for a Democratic Social Movement — A Vision of Government, Vocational Education, and the Future — Worker Civics: The Decline of the Nation-State and the Rise of Corporate Government — A Reconceptualized Government for the Twenty-First Century

Editorial Reviews

Analyzes the way workers are educated via a variety of institutions, focusing on the history and purposes of vocational education. The author looks at modernism and the evolution of the technocratic mind, the debate over ethical labor, post-Fordism and technopower, and race, class, and gender in vocational education. He concludes with his vision of the way government and vocational education institutions should interact in the future. Paper edition (unseen), $21.00. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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