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  title info:
    title: Schooling, childhood, and bureaucracy
    sub title: bureaucratizing the child
  name:
    name part: Waters, Tony.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2012
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xii, 255 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: This book uses sociological explanations to describe how the school system in the United States developed, and why reform is a constant. The explanation is rooted in the rationalized nature of bureaucracy, the ideals underlying society, and childhood. Highlighted is the tension between the love that parents feel for their individual children, and the rational demands of a bureaucracy to manage a mass produced product₇education. The American public school system is elemental to the reproduction of society's ideals. Such ideals in turn effect how relationships between teachers, parents, children, schools, and the state develop. Most notably, this results in chronic demands for reform when inevitably the high ideals for individual children in terms of 'school success,' defined as test scores, student behavior, equity, and so forth, are never quite achieved. The reasons why are embedded in a tension between bureaucracy, and the love individual parents have for individual children. In exploring the relationship between bureaucratic schooling and the individual child, my book describes the persistence of educational inequality, child development, and the nature of bureaucracy. The conclusions point out how education bureaucracies frame both schooling and childhood as they relentlessly seek to create ever more perfect children.
  abstract: "This book is about how modern American childhood is shaped by the bureaucratic tools including mass testing, child psychology, and the status hiearchies. This happens in a world where there is an emotional attachment to children in which no child can be left behind, even as the bureaucracies pragmatically sort through individuals of differing abilities. The result is childhoods shaped to meet competing American ideals for individualism, egalitarianism, and utililitarianism. The result is a conservative bureaucratic dance which resembles a game of rochambo, as individualism is trumped by egalitarianism, utilitarianism by individualism, and utilitarianism by egalitarianism"--
  table of contents: Preface -- Introduction -- Bureaucratizing the Child: The Manufacture of Adults in the Modern World -- American Mass Public Education and the Modern World -- Bureaucratized Childhood and the Persistence of Schooling Systems: Irrationality in Rationality -- Behaviorism, Developmentalism, and Bureaucracy: Leaky First Graders, Defiant Teenagers, Jocks, Nerds, and the Business Model -- 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 -- Teachers, Parents, and the Teaching Profession: The Miracle of Bureaucratized Love -- The Child Savers -- Seeing Like a State: Efficiency, Calculability, Predictivity, Control, Testing Regimes and School Administration -- The Limits of the Modern American School: Rock, Paper, Scissors (Equality, Individualism, Utilitarianism) -- The Modern World and Mass Public Education: Bureaucratized Schools around the World -- Why School Reform Will Always Be With Us: Emotion and Rationalization -- From Spoiled Blueberries to Classical Social Theory.
  note: Tony Waters.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Education
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Public schools
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Education
    topic: Aims and objectives
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Child development
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Bureaucracy
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: EDUCATION / General
  subject:
    topic: EDUCATION / Elementary
  subject:
    topic: EDUCATION / Secondary
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
  classification: LC191.4 .W38 2012eb
  classification: 306.43/2
  classification: EDU000000 EDU010000 EDU025000
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    title info:
      title: Schooling, childhood, and bureaucracy
    name:
      name part: Waters, Tony.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
      edition: 1st ed.
    identifier: (DLC) 2012013077
    identifier: (OCoLC)785864375
  identifier: 9781137269720 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1137269723 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1137269715
  identifier: 9781137269713
  identifier: 9781283738392
  identifier: 1283738392
  identifier: 630591 Palgrave Macmillan
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  record info:
    record content source: UKPGM
    record creation date: 121102
    record change date: 20250816204822.9
    record identifier: in00002786212
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng