Routledge Corporatism and Education: Joel Spring Selected Works

This comprehensive collection from Routledge brings together Joel Spring's seminal scholarship on education, power, and social control, beginning with his landmark 1972 work Education and the Rise of the Corporate State. Spring's research documents how educational systems have been shaped by corporate interests and dominant groups seeking to advance their economic and political agendas through what he terms ideological management. His scholarly analysis explores the influence of business doctrines, human capital theories, and consumerism on American schooling, examining the complex relationship between schools and institutional power. Part of the World Library of Educationalists series, this selected works collection provides critical insights into how education functions as a tool for cultural domination and social control, offering essential reading for scholars, educators, and students interested in the politics of knowledge and educational policy.