Mass Education, Global Capital, and the World The Theoretical Lenses of István Mészáros and Immanuel Wallerstein

by Griffiths, Tom G.; Imre, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781137014818
• ISBN10: 1137014814
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-12-18
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Immanuel Wallerstein and István Mészáros are prolific scholars whose analyses of global capitalism in crisis offer distinctive insights for research across the social sciences. This book engages readers with their main theses, encouraging their application in analysis of social reality and of its institutions of mass education, which aim to prepare workers for the global economy. Using the theoretical lenses offered by these two scholars, Tom G. Griffiths and Robert Imre develop a timely and provocative critique of mass education for this century, challenging readers to contribute to the construction of radical alternatives.

Author Biography

Tom G. Griffiths is Senior Lecturer in Comparative and International Education at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His work has been published in international journals and in a co-edited volume, Education and Socialism: Historical, Current and Future Perspectives (Springer 2013).
Robert Imre is Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is currently a Chief Investigator on an ARC Linkage grant, and he has been an invited speaker at the Australian National University (Australia), the University of Szeged (Hungary), and the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia).

Table of Contents

1. Wallerstein and Mészáros: Twentieth Century Scholars for the Twenty-First Century

2. Wallerstein's World-systems Analysis
3. Mass Education and Human Capital in the Capitalist World-System
4. Educating Critical Citizens for an Alternative World-System
5. Mass Labor: Reviving the Concept of Community and Collectivity
6. Work in the Post-industrial World
7. Global Capital: From the Polanyi Thesis to World-Systems and Beyond Capital
8. Conclusion