Schooling, Childhood, and Bureaucracy Bureaucratizing the Child [Hardcover]

In exploring the relationship between bureaucratic schooling and the individual child, Waters 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.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

By organizing his material around the compelling but simple theme of bureaucracy, Tony Waters brings a distinctive and potent perspective to the study of schooling. Schooling, Childhood, and Bureaucracy is a lively and insightful introduction to the sociology of education. - David Bills, professor of Sociology of Education, College of Education, The University of Iowa

In this fascinating work, Waters stretches readers beyond comfortable limits to see both the bureaucratization of schools and the commodification of our children who attend them. The tensions that gril*