ISBN: 9780241688182 - human capital: the tragedy of the education commons (pelican books) (12 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'One of the clearest and most important studies to be published on education, worldwide, in many decades' Danny DorlingDoes the education system make better people Why are so many - teachers and students alike - stressed and dissatisfied Do we need to revive real education Ideally, education is about the pursuit of truth, beauty and morality. But in the last few decades, a perilous fixation with human capital - skills, knowledge and aptitudes required for the labour market - has trampled over curricula, schools and universities. Rather than learning how to think critically about the world, from cradle to grave students are trained to be more effective workers, to make more money, and to serve an hegemonic ideology. Teachers and researchers are pressed to serve those goals.In this concluding book in his series on the commons, Guy Standing shows us how education - intrinsically a common public good - has been enclosed, privatised, financialised and corrupted, turned into an instrument of societal control, not human emancipation, weakening democracy, not strengthening it. Human Capital charts how the education industry largely serves commercial interests, not its teachers and students, and considers how to revive its lost values, to save society for the common good.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -'One of the clearest and most important studies to be published on education, worldwide, in many decades' Danny DorlingDoes the education system make better people Why are so many - teachers and students alike - stressed and dissatisfied Do we need to revive real education Ideally, education is about the pursuit of truth, beauty and morality. But in the last few decades, a perilous fixation with human capital - skills, knowledge and aptitudes required for the labour market - has trampled over curricula, schools and universities. Rather than learning how to think critically about the world, from cradle to grave students are trained to be more effective workers, to make more money, and to serve an hegemonic ideology. Teachers and researchers are pressed to serve those goals.In this concluding book in his series on the commons, Guy Standing shows us how education - intrinsically a common public good - has been enclosed, privatised, financialised and corrupted, turned into an instrument of societal control, not human emancipation, weakening democracy, not strengthening it. Human Capital charts how the education industry largely serves commercial interests, not its teachers and students, and considers how to revive its lost values, to save society for the common good.Penguin Books Limited, One Embassy Gardens, 8 Viaduct Gardens, London 512 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Human Capital | The Tragedy of the Education Commons | Guy Standing | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | Penguin Books Ltd (UK) | EAN 9780241688182 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -'One of the clearest and most important studies to be published on education, worldwide, in many decades' Danny DorlingDoes the education system make better people Why are so many - teachers and students alike - stressed and dissatisfied Do we need to revive real education Ideally, education is about the pursuit of truth, beauty and morality. But in the last few decades, a perilous fixation with human capital - skills, knowledge and aptitudes required for the labour market - has trampled over curricula, schools and universities. Rather than learning how to think critically about the world, from cradle to grave students are trained to be more effective workers, to make more money, and to serve an hegemonic ideology. Teachers and researchers are pressed to serve those goals.In this concluding book in his series on the commons, Guy Standing shows us how education - intrinsically a common public good - has been enclosed, privatised, financialised and corrupted, turned into an instrument of societal control, not human emancipation, weakening democracy, not strengthening it. Human Capital charts how the education industry largely serves commercial interests, not its teachers and students, and considers how to revive its lost values, to save society for the common good. 512 pp. Englisch.…