Jean Anyon
Encyclopedia
Jean Anyon is a leading critical thinker and researcher in education
. Her work uses political economy
to assess the impact of public policy on urban neighborhoods and schools. Her focus has been on the confluence of race, social class, and policy.
She is a professor of social and educational policy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
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Education
Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
. Her work uses political economy
Political economy
Political economy originally was the term for studying production, buying, and selling, and their relations with law, custom, and government, as well as with the distribution of national income and wealth, including through the budget process. Political economy originated in moral philosophy...
to assess the impact of public policy on urban neighborhoods and schools. Her focus has been on the confluence of race, social class, and policy.
She is a professor of social and educational policy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
City University of New York
The City University of New York is the public university system of New York City, with its administrative offices in Yorkville in Manhattan. It is the largest urban university in the United States, consisting of 23 institutions: 11 senior colleges, six community colleges, the William E...
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Works
- Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work (Journal of Education, 1980)
- Social Class and School Knowledge (Curriculum Inquiry, 1981)
- Ghetto Schooling: A Political Economy of Urban Education (Teachers College Press, 1997)
- Radical Possibilities: Public Policy, Urban Education, and a New Social Movement (Routledge 2005)
- Theory and Educational Research: Toward Critical Social Explanation(Routledge 2009).