Joel Spring

Economization of Education (eBook, ePUB)

Human Capital, Global Corporations, Skills-Based Schooling

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this timely, cogent analysis of trends and powerful forces shaping global educational policy today, Joel Spring focuses on how economization is making economic growth and increased productivity the main goals of schools, and the ways these goals are achieved-including measuring educational policies by their costs and economic benefits, shaping family life to ensure productive workers and high-achieving students, introducing entrepreneurship education into curricula from preschool through higher education, and increasing the involvement of economists in educational policy analysis. Close attention is given to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, and multinational corporations, which, as advocates of economization, want schools to focus on teaching hard and soft skills needed by the global labor market.

Economization raises questions about the effects of economically driven agendas for schools: Will education policies advocated by global organizations and multinational businesses corporatize and standardize human personalities and families? What type of global worker is being sought by global organizations and multinational corporations? What education programs are supported to educate the ideal global worker? What is the ideal family life for economic growth and development? Detailing and analyzing the politics and motivations driving economization, the book concludes with an assessment of the impacts of the confluence of business interests, economic theories, governments, and educators.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317548300
• Artikelnr.: 42554427

Autorenporträt

Joel Spring is Professor at Queens College/City University of New York and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Economization and Corporatization of Education. Chapter 2 OECD:
The Economization of Test Scores. Chapter 3 Skills: The New Global
Currency. Chapter 4   World Bank: "Our Dream Is a World Free of Poverty".
Chapter 5 The World Economic Forum: Partnerships and Entrepreneurship
Education for Global Businesses. Chapter 6 Economization of the Family and
Childhood: Educating the Corporate Personality. Chapter 7 The Confluence of
Business Interests, Economic Theories, Governments and Educators: Go to
School to Learn Job Skills.