Meritocratic Education and Social Worthlessness

ISBN-13:	9781137324887
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	12/24/2012
Series:	Palgrave Pivot
Edition description:	2013
Pages:	142
Sales rank:	692,827
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.70(h) x 0.80(d)

This book critically examines the socio-cultural role of achievement within education, arguing that the increasingly global demand for measurable standards of academic achievement is an expression of political ideology and the aggressive competitive reality of a neo-capitalist schooling system, resulting in many students feeling socially worthless.