Political Economy Of Education Research Articles

Education, Democracy and the Economy

Abstract This paper provides a critique of neo‐liberal political economy of education. It is argued that neo‐liberal ideology trades off democracy against ‘economic efficiency’. However, the consequence of the application of neo‐liberal principles to education is that overall standards of education are likely to decline, thereby creating the conditions for a low skilled, low morale workforce. It is suggested that this outcome is consistent with the Neo‐liberal creation of a low wage low technology economy. On the basis of the critique, an alternative education system concerned with meeting the aims of an education for a democratic, economically sophisticated, society is sketched.

Corporate Leaders, Resistant Youth, and School Reform in Sunbelt City: The Political Economy of Education

This paper reports on a 1988 field study of a chamber of commerce Task Force on Education and Jobs in a southern U. S. city we call Sunbelt City. It highlights a local controversy among business and education leaders over school reform. We argue that this local problem reflects a growing national trend of business intervention in public schools around a putative “crisis in education” over the quality of students not bound for college. Local and national capitalists hold that schools “fail to educate, ” producing a labor pool that cannot and/or will not work diligently. We draw on resistance literature in education to argue that non-college bound students' educational outcomes are realistic responses to the unstable and unpromising labor market in the United States. We believe the resulting local policy paralysis, seen in Sunbelt City, reflects capitalists' inability to see how they contribute to an array of contradictions in the social fabric.

Corporate Leaders, Resistant Youth, and School Reform in Sunbelt City: The Political Economy of Education

Corporate Leaders, Resistant Youth, and School Reform in Sunbelt City: The Political Economy of Education

POLITICAL ECONOMY OF EDUCATION AND JOB ATTAINMENT

Introduction The objective of this paper is twofold: to discuss some methodological issues on the study of school‐job nexus and to provide a review of Marxism and Education and the existing state of the art of Political Economy of Education.

Education, Recession and the World Village: A Comparative Political Economy of Education. Frederick M. Wirt , Grant Harman

<i>Education, Recession and the World Village: A Comparative Political Economy of Education</i>. Frederick M. Wirt , Grant Harman

The Surprising History of the Melanges D'Economie Politique Et Sociale, A Previously Unpublished Work by Leon Walras

Three quarters of a century after the death of Léon Walras, the founder of the Lausanne School, the Auguste and Léon Walras Center in Lyons has published for the first time his Mélanges d'économie politique et sociale. This volume includes twenty-nine papers, all prepared by Léon Walras, and maps out his theoretical itinerary. It spans works that he wrote in his youth, which were strongly influenced by his father's ideas, and mature works that he devoted to the three fields of pure economics, applied economics, and normative economics. His efforts were part of a lifelong project: the creation of a “scientific, liberal and humanitarian socialism.” The Mélanges reasserts Walras's desire to achieve a synthesis of these three fields that have been separated by too many of his disciples, who have retained only the one devoted to economic theory. The Mélanges plays an important part in the writings of Léon Walras. Initially conceived as containing remnants that had not appeared in the volumes published during Walras's life, it underwent a progressive development due to the succession of papers that he kept adding to it right up until the time of his death. Walras's revisions of the papers; his directions for the publication of the essays; his incorporation of unpublished papers on the teaching of political economy at the end of the nineteenth century; the character of the Mélanges as being a synthesis of the Elements d'économie politique pure, the Etudes d'économie sociale and the Etudes d'économie politique appliquée; and the insertion into the Mélanges of Léon Walras's last articles all make this work a genuine and important scientific testament.

The political economy of education and development

The political economy of education and development

The Political Economy of Education

The Political Economy of Education

Critique of the Political Economy of Education: The Prokla Approach.

The so-called reconstruction of Marx's critique of political economy was a significant feature in the central European Marxist discussions of the late sixties and early seventies. In the wave of this theoretical reconstruction movement, a new research discipline appeared: 'Marxist economics of education', or 'the critique of the political economy of education'. The most influential contributions came from researchers associated with the West Berlin journal PROKLA Probleme des Klassenkampfes. This article is a review of the debate during the seventies, from the pioneering contributions of the Prokla circle (Elmar Altvater and others), through the objections that were raised against their approach, to some possibilities for further research in the field.

The Political Economy of Education in Metropolitan Areas: Dilemmas of Reform and Public Choice

The Political Economy of Education in Metropolitan Areas: Dilemmas of Reform and Public Choice

The Political Economy of Education in Metropolitan Areas: Dilemmas of Reform and Public Choice

The Political Economy of Education in Metropolitan Areas: Dilemmas of Reform and Public Choice

Capitalism, liberalism, and schooling

Clearly, Schooling in Capitalist America is not without its limitations. It is charcterized by an ahistorical treatment of the functions of education, an economistic conception of social structure, an inadequate theory of reproduction and contradiction, and a seriously inaccurate account of educational politics. Yet despite its problems, Schooling is a very important and valuable work. Bowles and Gintis are particularly successful in developing an effective critique of the liberal political economy of education, and a conceptualization of a broad theory of the dynamics of educational change that confounds all previous accounts, whether liberal or revisionist. Schooling in Capitalist America is therefore a valuable, if flawed, starting point for a Marxist research program into the history and political economy of education. Its contributions to that research program are significant, and its difficulties instructive. While Schooling therefore is not all that one could wish for, it is a significant and provocative beginning. Moreover it is model of engaged and committed scholarship that provides some understanding of what is required for the collective control of the future.

IQism as Ideology and the Political Economy of Education

IQism as Ideology and the Political Economy of Education

Hierarchy in the System of School : Political Economy of Education

Hierarchy in the System of School : Political Economy of Education

The Political Economy of Education

The Political Economy of Education

The Political Economy of Education.

The Political Economy of Education.

ECONOMICS JA NGOC CHAU. Population Growth and Costs of Education in Developing Countries. Pp. 313. Paris, France: International Institute for Educational Planning, 1973. $7.00. JOHN VAIZEY. The Political Economy of Education. Pp. 297. New York: Halsted Press, 1973. $14.95

ECONOMICS JA NGOC CHAU. Population Growth and Costs of Education in Developing Countries. Pp. 313. Paris, France: International Institute for Educational Planning, 1973. $7.00. JOHN VAIZEY. The Political Economy of Education. Pp. 297. New York: Halsted Press, 1973. $14.95

The Political Economy of Education.

The Political Economy of Education.

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:The Transfer of Power, 1947. Edited by Nicholas Mansergh. Vol. IIThe Unknown Orwell. By Peter Stansky and William Abrahams.The Peers, The Parties and The People: The General Elections of 1910The New Unionism, The Case for Workers Control. By Ken Coates and Tony Topham.The French Communist Party versus the Students. Revolutionary Politics in May—June 1968.American Communism in Crisis, 1943–1957. By Joseph R. Starobin.Sino‐American Relations 1949–1971.The Political Economy of Education. By John Vaizey with Keith Norris and John Sheehan.The Relevance of History. By Gordon Connell‐Smith and Howell A. Lloyd.Political Stratification and Democracy. By I. Budge, J. A. Brand, M. Margolis and A. L. Smith.

Towards a Political Economy of Education: A Radical Critique of Ivan Illich 's Deschooling Society

The author critiques Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society, arguing that, despite his forthright vision of the liberating potential of educational technology, Illich fails to understand fully how the existing educational system serves the capitalist economy. Gintis evaluates and rejects the book's major thesis that the present character of schooling stems from the economy's need to shape consumer demands and expectations. Instead, he offers a production orientation which maintains that the repressive and unequal aspects of schooling derive from the need to supply a labor force compatible with the social relations of capitalist production. Gintis concludes that meaningful strategies for educational change must explicitly embrace a concomitant transformation of the mechanisms of power and privilege in the economic sphere.