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How do schools help to create the kind of person a child becomes? Changing Classes tells the story of a small, poor, ethnically-mixed school district in Michigan's rust-belt, a community in turmoil over the announced closing of a nearby auto assembly plant. As teachers and administrators found ways to make schooling more relevant to working-class children, two large-scale school reform initiatives swept into town: the Governor's 'market-place' reforms and the National Science Foundation's 'state systemic initiative'. All this is set against the backdrop of the transformation to a global, post-Fordist economy. The result is an account of the complex linkages at work as society structures the development of children to adulthood.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Psychology Child & developmental psychology

• Full title: Changing Classes
• Subtitle: School Reform and the New Economy
• Author: Martin Packer
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 332
• EAN: 9780521645409
• ISBN: 0521645409
• ID: 02038981
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 449 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. December 2000

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