Class Degrees: Smart Work, Managed Choice, and the Transformation of Higher Education

by Evan Watkins

Book Overview

A current truism holds that the undergraduate degree today is equivalent to the high-school diploma of yesterday. But undergraduates at a research university would probably not recognize themselves in the historical mirror of high-school vocational education. Students in a vast range of institutions are encouraged to look up the educational social scale, whereas earlier vocational education was designed to "cool out" expectations of social advancement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823229831
• ISBN13: 9780823229833
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.7"