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Less Like a Robot: A Comparison of Change in an Inner-City School and a Fortune 500 Company:

Less Like a Robot: A Comparison of Change in an Inner-City School and a Fortune... This study—a comparison of change in an inner-city school and a Fortune 500 company—investigates how the work that we are asking our children to do in elementary school relates to the ways that work is changing in the information economy. The findings for this study are both striking in their simplicity and practical in their implications, showing that the traditional contradiction between socially progressive education and preparation for work is, at least in some areas, waning; that work done by many different specialists in the past is being put back together, allowing workers to do “more of the whole job” and leaving them feeling “less like a robot.” http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Educational Research Journal SAGE

Less Like a Robot: A Comparison of Change in an Inner-City School and a Fortune 500 Company:

American Educational Research Journal , Volume 40 (1): 39 – Jun 23, 2016

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SAGE
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Copyright © 2019 by American Educational Research Association
ISSN
0002-8312
eISSN
1935-1011
DOI
10.3102/00028312040001003
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Abstract

This study—a comparison of change in an inner-city school and a Fortune 500 company—investigates how the work that we are asking our children to do in elementary school relates to the ways that work is changing in the information economy. The findings for this study are both striking in their simplicity and practical in their implications, showing that the traditional contradiction between socially progressive education and preparation for work is, at least in some areas, waning; that work done by many different specialists in the past is being put back together, allowing workers to do “more of the whole job” and leaving them feeling “less like a robot.”

Journal

American Educational Research JournalSAGE

Published: Jun 23, 2016

Keywords: correspondence theory,new economy,school to work,social reproduction,urban elementary education

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