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Meritocratic Education and Social Worthlessness 2013th Edition
Author(s): Khen Lampert (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
- Publication Date: 24 Dec. 2012
- Edition: 2013th
- Language: English
- Print length: 148 pages
- ISBN-10: 1137324880
- ISBN-13: 9781137324887
Book Description
This book critically examines the socio-cultural role of achievement within education, arguing that the increasingly global demand for measurable standards of academic achievement is an expression of political ideology and the aggressive competitive reality of a neo-capitalist schooling system, resulting in many students feeling socially worthless.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Meritocratic Education and Social Worthlessness … launches an unflinching attack on schooling, which it judges to be deeply flawed. The argument is straightforward: in capitalist societies, educational institutions and educationalists alike have become wrapped up in a system of coercion. The objective they serve is to generate a sense of social worthlessness in the subjugated majority. This systematic erosion of personal esteem is designed to acclimatise the children of the masses to the objective conditions of their oppression.” – British Journal of Educational Studies
About the Author
Khen Lampert is a Lecturer in the Department of East Asian Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel. He has previously published Traditions of Compassion; Compassionate Education: Prolegomena for Radical Schooling; and co-authored A Voice Unheard: Insight to Children’s Distress.
