This chapter looks at issues pertaining to the conflicting interests, goals, and purposes of public schools; discusses the political, social, and economic purposes of education; and presents conflicts and debates that arise over whose values and morals should be represented in schools.
Following the completion of this chapter:
The learner will be able to identify and discuss the political, social, and economic purposes of schooling.
The learner will be able to identify and discuss the historical goals and purposes of schooling.
The learner will be able to identify and discuss how differing political beliefs have impacted the political purposes of schooling.
The learner will be able to identify and discuss how moral values and beliefs have impacted the social purposes of schooling.
The learner will be able to identify and discuss how business, the global marketplace, and economic philosophies shape the economic purposes of schooling.
The learner will be able to discuss and critique the school as sorting machine and human capital.
