Introduction: Education in a Lean State
"The System is Broken": Legitimizing Education Change
A Revolution in Common Sense
Cultural Revolution and Citizenship
Social Policy of the Lean State
Education Reform for a Lean World
The Critique of Liberal Education
Theoretical Foundations
Method of Historical Sociology
Notes
Chapter 1: The Embrace of the State
Entering the State
Education Before the Welfare State
The Broad Welfare State and Educational Expansion
Elementary Schools: Engaging the Individual
Secondary Schools: There's a Place for Us
Post-Secondary Education: Increasing Access
Access to Universities
A New Point of Access: Colleges and Polytechnics
The End of Growth?
Notes
Chapter 2: Education for an Information Age?
Skills for the Information Age?
Skills and Lean Production
New Kinds of Problem-solving?
Standards Not Skills
Streaming and Labour Market Polarization
The Ideology of Training
Lean Discipline
The Vocationalist Ethos
Skills Planning in a 'Free' Market
Undermining the Culture of Citizenship
Developing a Market Orientation
Notes
Chapter 3: Education for the Nation
Educational Optimism and the Broad Welfare State
Seeing Like a State?
Making National Culture
Science and National Culture
Culture in a Lean State
The Cultural Industries After National Culture
Science After History?
Innovation Culture
Science as Innovation Culture
The Culture of Entrepreneurship
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 4: Education, Citizenship and Inequality
Introduction: Education for Equity?
W.E.B. Du Bois on Education for Freedom
Education and the Contradictions of Citizenship
Equity and Education Reform
Education and Racialization
Official Multiculturalism: The Highest Stage of Liberalism
Post-Liberal Education: Standards and Racialization
Notes
Chapter 5: Education: Gender and Sexuality
Education and Gender Equity
Gender in a Lean World
Gender and the Broad Welfare State
Masculinity in Mass Production
Domestic Femininity
Childhood and School in the Welfare State
Shifting Gender Relations
Gender and Post-Liberal Education
A Note of Schooling for Sexuality
Notes
Chapter 6: Children of the Market
Childhood in a Lean World
Continuous Improvement
Inequality and Polarization
Fear the Children
The Market Orientation
Closing Extra-Economic Space
Commodifying Education Space
Teaching Enterprise Culture
Knowledge as a Commodity
Market Mechanisms in Education
Towards Lean Education
Notes
Chapter 7: Learning Freedom
Fighting Back
Teachers on the Front Line
Teacher-bashing and Education Reform
Mobilizing Against the Harris Agenda
Fightbacks by Other Education Workers, High School Students and Parents
Fightbacks in the Post-Secondary Sector
Towards Education for Freedom
Brecht on Teaching and Learning
Mind and Body
Making the Familiar Strange
Art and Science Together
Social Movements and Ways of Knowing
Is Brecht Useful?
Active Learning for a Change
Notes
Bibliography
Index
