Educating children by respecting their spontaneous interests: Such is the promise of alternative pedagogies. Subjecting these promises to sociological critique, Ghislain Leroy shows that they are not necessarily emancipatory and may even contribute to the reproduction of social inequalities.
In the neoliberal restructuring of post-secondary education, issues in educational systems surfaced most strongly in the United States. This essay addresses U.S. schooling and the efforts to reform its institutions. If the task of reform at the local levels of primary and secondary education is daunting, educational reform in the US is increasingly focused on post-secondary education.
