The Prophecy of the Kallikak Family: "Disability" in Postmodern Schools

Due to disappearing jobs and large-scale automated production of goods and services, schools face a choice between "kallikakization" (creating and perpetuating a split between the comfortably endowed and the deprived) and achieving a new balance in social regulation/control arrangements. P...

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Published in:EAF journal 1999, Vol.13 (2), p.11
Main Author: Karagiannis, Anastasios
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agency Cooperation
Automation
Citizenship
Citizenship Education
Community Relations
Community Services
Control (Social Behavior)
Democracy
Economically Disadvantaged
Education Work Relationship
Educational objectives
Elementary Secondary Education
Elitism
Feedback (Response)
Foucault (Michel)
Futures (of Society)
General Education
Job Skills
Postmodernism
Public Education
Public Schools
Role of Education
Social Control
Social Mobility
Social Problems
Social Stratification
Socioeconomic Background
Students with Disabilities
Underemployment
Unemployment
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Summary:Due to disappearing jobs and large-scale automated production of goods and services, schools face a choice between "kallikakization" (creating and perpetuating a split between the comfortably endowed and the deprived) and achieving a new balance in social regulation/control arrangements. Postmodern schools can avoid kallikakization by establishing a strong connection between work and citizenship and rejecting the rhetoric of education for the job market. (33 references) (MLH)
ISSN:0831-3318