How Do We Tell The Workers?

This book is about how vocational education shapes the politics of the era. It is important reading for policy makers, labor leaders, and educators.

This foundational text makes use of advances in cognition and social theory to demonstrate how and why schools and teachers must reorient traditional approaches to vocational education. The book serves as a main text or as supplementary reading in teacher training courses and will be a valuable sourcebook for administrators and education scholars. This book analyzes the ways that workers are educated, via a variety of institutions, to fit into the contemporary labor-unfriendly economic system. As he examines the history and purposes of vocational education, Kincheloe illustrates the manner in which this education shapes the politics of the era. How Do We Tell the Workers? is important reading for policy makers, labor leaders, and educators. This book analyzes the ways that workers are educated, via a variety of institutions, to fit into the contemporary labor-unfriendly economic system. As he examines the history and purposes of vocational education, Kincheloe illustrates the manner in which this education shapes the politics of the era. How Do We Tell the Workers? is important reading for policy makers, labor leaders, and educators.