Consuming the Public School
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| Title: | Consuming the Public School |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Labaree, David F. |
| Source: | Educational Theory. Aug 2011 61(4):381-394. |
| Availability: | Wiley-Blackwell. 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148. Tel: 800-835-6770; Tel: 781-388-8598; Fax: 781-388-8232; e-mail: cs-journals@wiley.com; Web site: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/ |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
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| Page Count: | 14 |
| Publication Date: | 2011 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Descriptive |
| Education Level: | Elementary Secondary Education |
| Descriptors: | Economic Progress, Educational Change, Public Schools, Role of Education, Institutional Mission, Educational Benefits, Educational History, Educational Philosophy, Educational Trends, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1741-5446.2011.00410.x |
| ISSN: | 0013-2004 |
| Abstract: | In this essay David Labaree examines the tension between two competing visions of the purposes of education that have shaped American public schools. From one perspective, we have seen schooling as a way to preserve and promote public aims, such as keeping the faith, shoring up the republic, or promoting economic growth. From the other perspective, we have seen schooling as a way to advance the interests of individual educational consumers in the pursuit of social access and social advantage. In the first half of the essay Labaree shows the evolution of the public vision over time, from an emphasis on religious aims to political ones to economic ones and, finally, to an embrace of individual opportunity. In the second half, he shows how the consumerist vision of schooling has not only come to dominate in the rhetoric of school reform but also in shaping the structure of the school system. |
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| Entry Date: | 2011 |
| Accession Number: | EJ934910 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | In this essay David Labaree examines the tension between two competing visions of the purposes of education that have shaped American public schools. From one perspective, we have seen schooling as a way to preserve and promote public aims, such as keeping the faith, shoring up the republic, or promoting economic growth. From the other perspective, we have seen schooling as a way to advance the interests of individual educational consumers in the pursuit of social access and social advantage. In the first half of the essay Labaree shows the evolution of the public vision over time, from an emphasis on religious aims to political ones to economic ones and, finally, to an embrace of individual opportunity. In the second half, he shows how the consumerist vision of schooling has not only come to dominate in the rhetoric of school reform but also in shaping the structure of the school system. |
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| ISSN: | 0013-2004 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1741-5446.2011.00410.x |
