Education: Culture, Economy, and Society

1. Introduction: The Social Transformation of Education and Society; PART ONE: EDUCATION, CULTURE, AND SOCIETY; 2. The Forms of Capital; 3. Class and Pedagogies: Visible and Invisible; 4. Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital; 5. The Post-Modern Condition; 6. Crossing the Boundaries of Educational Discourse: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Feminism; 7. Having an Postmodernist Turn or Postmodernist Angst: A Disorder Experienced by an Author Who is Not Yet Dead or Even Close to It; 8. Feminisms and Education Gaby Weiner; PART TWO: EDUCATION, GLOBAL ECONOMY, AND LABOUR MARKET; 9. Why the Rich are Getting Richer and the Poor, Poorer; 10. Education, Globalization, and Economic Development; 11. The New Knowledge Work; 12. Education, Skill Formation, and Economic Development: The Singaporean Approach; 13. Human Capital Concepts; 14. The Gendering of Skill and Vocationalism in Twentieth-Century Australian Education; 15. Can Education Do It Alone?; PART THREE: THE STATE AND THE RESTRUCTURING OF TEACHERS' WORK; 16. Education and the Role of the State: Devolution and Control Post-Picot; 17. The Global Economy, the State, and the Politics of Education; 18. Educational Achievement in Centralized and Decentralized Systems; 19. On the Changing Relationships Between the State, Civil Society, and Changing Notions of Teacher Professionalism; 20. Changing Notions of Educational Management and Leadership; 21. Assessment, Accountability, and Standards Using Assessment to Control the Reform of Schooling; 22. Restructuring Schools for Student Success; 23. Restructuring Restructuring: Postmodernity and the Prospects for Educational Change; PART FOUR: POLITICS, MARKETS, AND SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESS; 24. Politics, Markets, and the Organization of Schools; 25. Education, Democracy, and the Economy; 26. The 'Third Wave': Education and the Ideology of Parentocracy; 27. Circuits of Schooling: A Sociological Exploration of Parental Choice of School in Social Class Contexts; 28.