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Confronting equality : gender, knowledge and global change / Raewyn Connell.
Raewyn Connell is University Professor at the University of Sydney. Chapters include: chapter 4: Working-class families and the new secondary education; chapter 5: Good teachers on dangerous ground. "What does social equality mean now, in a world of markets, global power and new forms of knowledge? In 'Confronting equality' Raewyn Connell combines vivid research with theoretical insight and radical politics to address this question. The focus moves across family change, class and education, intellectual workers, and the global dimension of social science, to contemporary theorists of knowledge and global power, and the political dilemmas of today's left." - Back cover. Includes bibliographical references (p. [170]-186) and index. "What does social equality mean now, in a world of markets, global power and new forms of knowledge? In 'Confronting equality' Raewyn Connell combines vivid research with theoretical insight and radical politics to address this question. The focus moves across family change, class and education, intellectual workers, and the global dimension of social science, to contemporary theorists of knowledge and global power, and the political dilemmas of today's left." - Back cover.