Un-American Acts

ISBN: 9789463003278 出版年：2016 页码：145 Brill

In a seminal 1997 article, David Labaree argued that the educational enterprise in America is instructed by three primary goals. The first goal, “democratic equality,” reflects society’s interest both in creating an informed and engaged citizenry and in promoting relative equality. A second goal, “social efficacy,” emphasizes the necessity in a market-based economy of having productive and innovative laborers. The third goal, “social mobility,” treats education as a commodity whose sole purpose is to advance individual standing in the hierarchy of social order.