Bowles And Gintis Revisited Correspondence And Contradiction In Educational Theory

First Published in 1988. We live in reactionary times, at the time of writing the hard right is established in the UK and America. At the same time Britain has given birth to a number of progressive forces ?€” the left-wing borough councils, the anti-nuclear movement including its impact at Greenham Common, an established women's movement, the miners' strike, the uprisings in the inner cities and the anti-racist struggle, while in America we have seen the advance of the Rainbow coalition and other progressive movements. Whatever the way forward, for the left, there is a fundamental need for a re-evaluation of basic Marxist scholarship but in the light of the significance of these historical and current realities. This book aims to play some small part in that process. The central focus is, of course, education but the issues raised range far wider.

Introduction; Chapter 1 Correspondence Theory in Education: Impact, Critique and Re-evaluation, Mike Cole; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4 The Correspondence Principle and the Marxist Sociology of Education, RobertMoore; Chapter 5 Historical School Reform and the Correspondence Principle, PeterMacDonald; Chapter 6 *The arguments presented here are based on a larger treatment in my Teachers and Texts: A Political Economy of Class and Gender Relations in Education,New York/London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986., Michael W.Apple; Chapter 7 ?€?Experience?€? as Analytical Framework: Does it Account for Girls' Education?, AnnMarieWolpe; Chapter 8 Beyond the Reproductive Theory of Teaching, Dennis L.Carlson; Chapter 9 Black Feminist Pedagogy and Schooling in Capitalist White America, Gloria I.Joseph; Part 3 The Politics of Bowles and Gintis; Chapter 10 Old and New Orthodoxies: The Seductions of Liberalism, RachelSharp; Chapter 11 Reformism Or Revolution: Liberalism And The Metaphysics of Democracy, JohnFreeman-Moir, AlanScott, HughLauder; Chapter 12 Can There Be a Liberal Philosophy of Education in a Democratic Society?, SamuelBowles, HerbertGintis; Part 4 Bowles and Gintis Reply to Their Critics; Chapter 13 Schooling in Capitalist America: Reply to our Critics, SamuelBowles, HerbertGintis;

Mike Cole University of Brighton.