Rethinking Education and Poverty

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4214-1767-7
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

How can new ways of thinking about education improve the lives of poor students?

In Rethinking Education and Poverty, William G. Tierney brings together scholars from around the world to examine the complex relationship between poverty and education in the twenty-first century. International in scope, this book assembles the best contemporary thinking about how education can mediate class and improve the lives of marginalized individuals.

In remarkably nuanced ways, this volume examines education's role as both a possible factor in perpetuating—and a tool for alleviating—entrenched poverty. Education has long been seen as a way out of poverty. Some critics, however, argue that educational systems mask inequality and perpetuate cycles of poverty and wealth; others believe that the innate resilience or intellectual ability of impoverished students is what allows those individuals to succeed. Rethinking Education and Poverty grapples in turn with the ramifications of each possibility.

Throughout these compelling, far-reaching, and provocative essays, the contributors seek to better understand how local efforts to reduce poverty through education interact—or fail to interact—with international assessment efforts. They take a broad historical view, examining social, economic, and educational polices from the postWorld War II period to the end of the Cold War and beyond. Although there is no simple solution to inequality, this book makes clear that education offers numerous exciting possibilities for progress.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tierney, William G

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1. A Liminal Moment
2. A Brief History of [Contemporary] Time
3. Demographic Disruption
4. Economic Disruption
5. Cultural Disruption
6. No Line on the Horizon
7. Toward a New Marketplace
8. Reimagine the Future
9. Breakpoint
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tierney, William G
William G. Tierney is University Professor, Wilbur-Kieffer Professor of Higher Education, and director of the Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis in the Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California. He is the editor of The Responsive University: Restructuring for High Performance and Competing Conceptions of Academic Governance: Negotiating the Perfect Storm, both published by Johns Hopkins.

William G. Tierney is the Wilbur Kieffer Professor of Higher Education and the co-director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California. He is the coeditor of Postsecondary Play: The Role of Games and Social Media in Higher Education.