The (Dis)Order of U.S. Schooling: Zygmunt Bauman and Education for an Ambivalent World

This book critically interrogates the function of schooling in the United States of America using the writings of sociologist Zygmunt Bauman and suggests that its aims, whether recognized or not, are not so much to educate students to be free thinkers, but rather to be orderly cogs in a particular functional social machine.

Eric Ferris is a High School Mathematics Teacher. He graduated from Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA.