Growing-Up Modern

The Western State Builds Third-World Schools

Bruce Fuller

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Routledge
07 April 2015

Organisation & management of education; Central government policies

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development

The modern state – First and Third Worlds alike – pushes tirelessly to expand mass education and to deepen the schools’ effect upon children. First published in 1991, Growing-Up Modern explores why, how, and with what actual effects state actors so vehemently pursue this dual political agenda.

Bruce Fuller first delves into the motivations held by politicians, education bureaucrats and civic elites as they earnestly seek to spread schooling to younger children, older adults and previously disenfranchised groups. Fuller argues that the school provides an institutional stage on which political actors signal their ideals and the coming of greater modernity; broadening membership in the polity, promising mass opportunity in the wage sector, intensifying modern (bureaucratic) forms of school management, and deepening a presumed commitment to the child’s individual development.

Fuller advances a theory of the ‘fragile state’ where Western political expectations and organisations are placed within pluralistic Third World settings, using southern Africa as an example of the dilemmas faced by the central state.

By: Bruce Fuller
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 294g
ISBN: 9781138865662
ISBN 10: 1138865664
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Development
Pages: 196
Publication Date: 07 April 2015
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. A Faithful Yet Rocky Romance Between State and School 2. What Drives the Expansion and Deepening of Mass Schooling? 3. Winding up Schools: The State Constructs Teachers’ Roles and Tools 4. Strong States, Strong Teachers? 5. Choice, Community and the Teaching Craft