SUNY series, frontiers in education The Contradictory College: The Conflict Origins, Impacts, and Futures of the Community College (Suny Series in Frontiers in Education) (Suny Series, Frontiers in Education)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0791419568
ISBN 13
9780791419564
Category
Unknown
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Publication Year
1994
Publisher
Pages
380
Subject
Community colleges--United States. Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--United States. Higher education and state--United States.
Series Name
Abstract
"In this comprehensive and brilliantly lucid book, Kevin Dougherty considers competing ideas about the community colleges--ideas offered by functionalist advocates, instrumentalist Marxist critics, and institutionalist critics. In offering his own perspective, he sheds new light on the issues. He analyzes how various outcomes occur, identifies an important additional set of players, namely government officials, and specifies how business constrains actions by those officials. The book is essential reading for educational administrators and policy-makers, sociologists of education, political sociologists, and everyone concerned with equal educational opportunity."
Biblio Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-358) and index.
Number of Copies
2
