David Baker (8) (1952–)
Autore di National Differences, Global Similarities: World Culture and the Future of Schooling (Stanford Social Sciences)
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David Baker (8) ha come alias David P. Baker.
Opere di David Baker
Opere a cui è stato assegnato l'alias David P. Baker.
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1952-01-05
- Sesso
- male
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 3
- Utenti
- 31
- Popolarità
- #440,253
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 362
- Lingue
- 10
This notion of education as a primary institution allows Baker to draw out problems with and contradictions inherent to other theories of education as a secondary institution, which asserts education's essential function is re-productive, rather than primarily productive as Baker argues.
The weakest part of the book is probably the chapter on education and religion, as it relies on the American context, and generalises to the rest of the world from that (when it comes to the sociology of religion, a good rule of thumb is never to generalise from the USA to the rest of the world). Another issue with the book itself (rather than its content) is the index, which is dreadful. Still, best book on education I have read in years.… (altro)