Human Capital The Tragedy of the Education Commons (Pelican Books) | 1.07 MB
Title: Human Capital
Author: Guy Standing
Category: Education, Politics, Nonfiction
Language: English | 366 str. Pages | ISBN: 0241688183
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‘One of the clearest and most important studies to be published on education, worldwide, in many decades’ Danny Dorling
Does the education system make better people? Why are so many – teachers and students alike – stressed and dissatisfied? Do we need to revive real education?
Ideally, education is about the pursuit of truth, beauty and morality. But in the last few decades, a perilous fixation with human capital – skills, knowledge and aptitudes required for the labour market – has trampled over curricula, schools and universities. Rather than learning how to think critically about the world, from cradle to grave students are trained to be more effective workers, to make more money, and to serve an hegemonic ideology. Teachers and researchers are pressed to serve those goals.
In this concluding book in his series on the commons, Guy Standing shows us how education – intrinsically a common public good – has been enclosed,…
‘One of the clearest and most important studies to be published on education, worldwide, in many decades’ Danny Dorling
Does the education system make better people? Why are so many – teachers and students alike – stressed and dissatisfied? Do we need to revive real education?
Ideally, education is about the pursuit of truth, beauty and morality. But in the last few decades, a perilous fixation with human capital – skills, knowledge and aptitudes required for the labour market – has trampled over curricula, schools and universities. Rather than learning how to think critically about the world, from cradle to grave students are trained to be more effective workers, to make more money, and to serve an hegemonic ideology. Teachers and researchers are pressed to serve those goals.
In this concluding book in his series on the commons, Guy Standing shows us how education – intrinsically a common public good – has been enclosed,…
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