Introduction: Education in a Lean State "The System is Broken": Legitimizing Education Change A Revolution in Common Sense Cultural Revolution and Citizenship Social Policy of the Lean State Education Reform for a Lean World The Critique of Liberal Education Theoretical Foundations Method of Historical Sociology Notes Chapter 1: The Embrace of the State Entering the State Education Before the Welfare State The Broad Welfare State and Educational Expansion Elementary Schools: Engaging the Individual Secondary Schools: There''s a Place for Us Post-Secondary Education: Increasing Access Access to Universities A New Point of Access: Colleges and Polytechnics The End of Growth? Notes Chapter 2: Education for an Information Age? Skills for the Information Age? Skills and Lean Production New Kinds of Problem-solving? Standards Not Skills Streaming and Labour Market Polarization The Ideology of Training Lean Discipline The Vocationalist Ethos Skills Planning in a ''Free'' Market Undermining the Culture of Citizenship Developing a Market Orientation Notes Chapter 3: Education for the Nation Educational Optimism and the Broad Welfare State Seeing Like a State? Making National Culture Science and National Culture Culture in a Lean State The Cultural Industries After National Culture Science After History? Innovation Culture Science as Innovation Culture The Culture of Entrepreneurship Conclusion Notes Chapter 4: Education, Citizenship and Inequality Introduction: Education for Equity? W.E.B. Du Bois on Education for Freedom Education and the Contradictions of Citizenship Equity and Education Reform Education and Racialization Official Multiculturalism: The Highest Stage of Liberalism Post-Liberal Education: Standards and Racialization Notes Chapter 5: Education: Gender and Sexuality Education and Gender Equity Gender in a Lean World Gender and the Broad Welfare State Masculinity in Mass Production Domestic Femininity Childhood and School in the Welfare State Shifting Gender Relations Gender and Post-Liberal Education A Note of Schooling for Sexuality Notes Chapter 6: Children of the Market Childhood in a Lean World Continuous Improvement Inequality and Polarization Fear the Children The Market Orientation Closing Extra-Economic Space Commodifying Education Space Teaching Enterprise Culture Knowledge as a Commodity Market Mechanisms in Education Towards Lean Education Notes Chapter 7: Learning Freedom Fighting Back Teachers on the Front Line Teacher-bashing and Education Reform Mobilizing Against the Harris Agenda Fightbacks by Other Education Workers, High School Students and Parents Fightbacks in the Post-Secondary Sector Towards Education for Freedom Brecht on Teaching and Learning Mind and Body Making the Familiar Strange Art and Science Together Social Movements and Ways of Knowing Is Brecht Useful? Active Learning for a Change Notes Bibliography Index.