Carnoy 1974

Carnoy, Martin. 1974.Education as cultural imperialism. New York: Longman. 378 pages. 0582280184 (paperback); 0582280214 (hardback). Location: Dallas SIL Library 370.193 C291e. Interest level: general.

Is an historical analysis of education and how capitalists used it for imperialistic domination rather than making creative independent thinkers. Argues that historically the main function of schools has been

• to transmit the social and economic structure from generation to generation through pupil selection
• to define culture and rules, and
• to teach certain cognitive skills.

Chapter titles are as follows:

• Schooling and society
• Education for development or domination?
• A theoretical framework
• Education and traditional colonialism: India and West Africa
• Education and free-trade colonialism: Latin America in the Republican period
• Education as internal colonialism: Educational reform and social control in the United States, 1830--1970
• Education as internal colonialism: The education of Black Americans in the United States, 1865--1930
• Education and the ideology of efficiency: United States neocolonialism since 1945
• What is to be done?

Is wide in scope. Covers material well, but has rather one-sided approach.

• Bibliography module: Carnoy 1974
• In overview module: Bibliography (Literacy): C
• In modular book: Bibliography (Literacy), by Doris Gallemore, Trudi C. Hunt, Jeanne Swanson, and Stephen L. Walter
• In document collection: Reference materials
• In bookshelf: Literacy

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