Schooling, Childhood, and Bureaucracy: Bureaucratizing the Child

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Bureaucratizing the Child: The Manufacture of Adults in the Modern World....Pages 11-28
American Mass Public Education and the Modern World....Pages 29-55
Bureaucratized Childhood and the Persistence of Schooling Systems: Irrationality in Rationality....Pages 57-80
Behaviorism, Developmentalism, and Bureaucracy: Leaky First Graders, Defiant Teenagers, Jocks, Nerds, and the Business Model....Pages 81-110
The Sorting Function of Schools: Institutionalized Privilege and Why Harvard Is a Social Problem for Both the Middle Class and Public School 65 in the Bronx....Pages 111-132
Teachers, Parents, and the Teaching Profession: The Miracle of Bureaucratized Love....Pages 133-151
The Child Savers....Pages 153-168
Seeing Like a State: Efficiency, Calculability, Predictivity, Control, Testing Regimes, and School Administration....Pages 169-184
The Limits of the Modern American School: Rock, Paper, Scissors (Equality, Individualism, Utilitarianism)....Pages 185-196
The Modern World and Mass Public Education: Bureaucratized Schools around the World....Pages 197-213
Why School Reform Will Always Be with Us: Emotion and Rationalization....Pages 215-230
From Spoiled Blueberries to Classical Social Theory....Pages 231-239
Back Matter....Pages 241-255