Hugh Lauder
Biographic Data
| ID | 245377 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hugh Lauder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hugh |
| FAMILY NAME | Lauder |
| SIGNATURE | LAUDER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bath |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9276-5235 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 495 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Collective obituary for James D. Marshall (1937–2021)
Eulogy for Jim Marshall (read at the funeral)Michael A. PetersBeijing Normal UniversityMy deepest condolences to Pepe, Dom and Marcus and to Jim’s grandchildren. Tina and I spent a lot of time at t
A tribute to Kevin Harris, philosopher of education
The Death of Human Capital?: Its Failed Promise and How to Renew It in an Age of Disruption
Human capital theory, the notion that there is a direct relationship between educational investment and individual and national prosperity, has dominated public policy on education and labor for the past fifty years. This book describes the development of human capital theory and why it has turned into a failed revolution. It outlines an alternative theory that re-defines human capital in an age of smart machines. The new human capital rejects th…
The roles of higher education, further education and lifelong learning in the future economy
This special issue of the journal is devoted to the contribution of higher education, further education and lifelong learning to the future economy. To consider this question at the time of a pande
Remembering Geoff Mason
This special issue of the Journal is dedicated to Geoff Mason who died in June this year. Geoff was a leading economist of education. He was born in Dunedin (NZ) and after some time in Switzerland
Higher education and the labour market: An introduction
‘Tertiary education has seen unprecedented growth in the past decade, but there is a significant share of graduates who struggle to find good jobs, while employers say they cannot find the people w
The clustering in ‘global universities’ of graduates from ‘Elite Traditional International Schools’: A surprising phenomenon
Our paper reveals a significant under-reported emergent phenomenon: the graduates of the well-established ‘Elite Traditional International Schools’ worldwide are beginning to cluster in certain universities, in certain ‘global cities’. As one might expect, New York and London are central to this clustering, alongside Boston, Toronto and Vancouver. Surprisingly, these destinations are not the world’s top, elite universities, showing that the forms…
International mindedness as a platform for class solidarity
There has been reference in literature to the concepts of a Transnational Capitalist Class and a Global Middle Class, but there has been little discussion of how education may form any sense of class solidarity for these groups. In national contexts, ruling class socialisation has been achieved through elite private schooling. But the notion of global classes presents a fundamentally different problem for class socialisation and solidarity since …
The case against education: Why the education system is a waste of time and money
Reviewed by Ewart Keep, Anna Vignoles and Hugh LauderBryan Caplan is an American academic economist and libertarian. The arguments The Case Against Education seeks to construct can be distilled fro
Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future
Reviewed by Ian McGimpsey, Stuart Tannock and Hugh LauderAt the time of writing, the headlines are dominated by Brexit and a phone game called Pokemon Go. A reading of Postcapitalism: A Guide to ou
Human capital theory, the power of transnational companies and a political response in relation to education and economic development
Towards Successful Schooling (RLE Edu l Sociology of Education)
Globalizing education, educating the local: How method made us mad
Book review of 'Globalizing education, educating the local: how method made us mad', by Ian Stronach, London, Routledge, 2010, 240 pp
The Global Auction: The Broken Promises of Education, Jobs, and Incomes
For decades, the idea that more education will lead to greater individual and national prosperity has been a cornerstone of developed economies. Indeed, it is almost universally believed that college diplomas give Americans and Europeans a competitive advantage in the global knowledge wars. Challenging this conventional wisdom, this book forces us to reconsider our deeply held and mistaken views about how the global economy really works and how t…
Globalisation, Skill Formation and the Varieties of Capitalism Approach
This paper is concerned to evaluate the varieties of capitalism approach to global institutional convergence and divergence as represented by the skill formation and welfare state theory of Margarita Estevez-Abe, Torben Iversen and David Soskice. They argue that the configuration of particular skills and labor markets distinctive of national economies can explain key aspects of welfare state provision. This paper makes the case that the generatio…
Globalisation, knowledge and the myth of the magnet economy
This article examines the dominant view of the changing relationship between education, jobs and rewards in the global knowledge economy. This asserts that the developed economies can resolve issues of individual aspirations, economic efficiency and social justice through the creation of a high‐skills, high‐wage ‘magnet’ economy. Here the authors examine four of the key dimensions of this account and argue that while there has been a fundamental …
Sociology and political arithmetic: Some Principles of a New Policy Science1
This paper advances the position that sociology needs to develop an approach to research which focuses on fundamental social problems. In doing so it shares many of the intellectual values and goals of political arithmetic while seeking to move methodologically beyond it. Since such problems are complex they will require, typically, interdisciplinary input and a concomitant approach to the development and appraisal of theories. We are not, theref…
School composition and peer effects
Capitalism and Social Progress: The Future of Society in a Global Economy
Why are America and Britain wealthier than ever but millions of children live in poverty, neighbourhoods want for basic amenities and the middle classes fear for their families, jobs and futures? The answer is not to be found in globalization, technological innovation, or our personal failings to adapt to changing circumstances as we are so often told. The answer lies mainly with the historical legacy of the 'golden era' and the obsession with ma…
High Skills: Globalization, Competitiveness, and Skill Formation
Economic globalization has led to debates about competitiveness of nations. Prosperity, social justice, and welfare depend on the creation of a high-skilled workforce. This book discusses whether optimism over a future high skills economy is justified.
The Dilemmas of Comparative Research and Policy Importation
(2000). The Dilemmas of Comparative Research and Policy Importation. British Journal of Sociology of Education: Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 465-475
Education Culture, Economy, and Society
Education aims to establish the social study of education at the centre of political and sociological debate about post industrial societies. It looks at major changes which have taken place in the late 20th century and at educational policy
Education, globalization and economic development
This paper critically examines two trajectories for economic development under the new global economic competition: the neo‐Fordist route of the New Right and the post‐Fordist route of centre‐left Modernizers. It is argued that both positions are unlikely to achieve economic prosperity and equality of opportunity for all, although there are elements in the Modernizers’ programme that are desirable. The Modernizers emphasize the idea of a ‘high sk…
The Dilemmas of Leadership and the Virtues of Policy Scholarship
In this book Gerald Grace could well have taken as his point of departure R.H. Tawney's dictum that 'an appeal to principles is the condition of any ... reconstruction of society, because social institutions are the visible expression of the scale of moral values ... and it is impossible to alter institutions without altering that valuation' (Tawney, 1982, p. 10). As the title of this book suggests, it is not about management and, in fact, it is …
Education, Economy and Social Change
In advanced industrial societies the educational system has been identified as making a major contribution to national economic prosperity. In this paper we examine how the educational system should be organised to meet the social and economic challenge of the late twentieth century. In asking this question the intention is to redirect current debates towards a more thorough going discussion about the interrelationship between education, economy …
Education Culture, Economy, and Society
Education aims to establish the social study of education at the centre of political and sociological debate about post industrial societies. It looks at major changes which have taken place in the late 20th century and at educational policy
Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future
Reviewed by Ian McGimpsey, Stuart Tannock and Hugh LauderAt the time of writing, the headlines are dominated by Brexit and a phone game called Pokemon Go. A reading of Postcapitalism: A Guide to ou
Sociology and political arithmetic: Some Principles of a New Policy Science1
This paper advances the position that sociology needs to develop an approach to research which focuses on fundamental social problems. In doing so it shares many of the intellectual values and goals of political arithmetic while seeking to move methodologically beyond it. Since such problems are complex they will require, typically, interdisciplinary input and a concomitant approach to the development and appraisal of theories. We are not, theref…
Globalisation, knowledge and the myth of the magnet economy
This article examines the dominant view of the changing relationship between education, jobs and rewards in the global knowledge economy. This asserts that the developed economies can resolve issues of individual aspirations, economic efficiency and social justice through the creation of a high‐skills, high‐wage ‘magnet’ economy. Here the authors examine four of the key dimensions of this account and argue that while there has been a fundamental …
Education, globalization and economic development
This paper critically examines two trajectories for economic development under the new global economic competition: the neo‐Fordist route of the New Right and the post‐Fordist route of centre‐left Modernizers. It is argued that both positions are unlikely to achieve economic prosperity and equality of opportunity for all, although there are elements in the Modernizers’ programme that are desirable. The Modernizers emphasize the idea of a ‘high sk…
International mindedness as a platform for class solidarity
There has been reference in literature to the concepts of a Transnational Capitalist Class and a Global Middle Class, but there has been little discussion of how education may form any sense of class solidarity for these groups. In national contexts, ruling class socialisation has been achieved through elite private schooling. But the notion of global classes presents a fundamentally different problem for class socialisation and solidarity since …
Globalisation, Skill Formation and the Varieties of Capitalism Approach
This paper is concerned to evaluate the varieties of capitalism approach to global institutional convergence and divergence as represented by the skill formation and welfare state theory of Margarita Estevez-Abe, Torben Iversen and David Soskice. They argue that the configuration of particular skills and labor markets distinctive of national economies can explain key aspects of welfare state provision. This paper makes the case that the generatio…
Education, Economy and Social Change
In advanced industrial societies the educational system has been identified as making a major contribution to national economic prosperity. In this paper we examine how the educational system should be organised to meet the social and economic challenge of the late twentieth century. In asking this question the intention is to redirect current debates towards a more thorough going discussion about the interrelationship between education, economy …
Education, Democracy and the Economy
This paper provides a critique of neo‐liberal political economy of education. It is argued that neo‐liberal ideology trades off democracy against 'economic efficiency'. However, the consequence of the application of neo‐liberal principles to education is that overall standards of education are likely to decline, thereby creating the conditions for a low skilled, low morale workforce. It is suggested that this outcome is consistent with the Neo‐li…
Human capital theory, the power of transnational companies and a political response in relation to education and economic development
What is to be done with radical academic practice
Since the mid 1970s, radical analysis of formal educational institutions has become dominated by a form of academic Marxism or neo-Marxism epitomised in the published work of Apple, Willis, Whitty and Giroux, among others. Such work usually includes 'Monday morning chapters' which seek to answer the question: What is to be done? The authors subject this form of theorising to a fundamental critique, seeing it as the product of the forms and proces…
The clustering in ‘global universities’ of graduates from ‘Elite Traditional International Schools’: A surprising phenomenon
Our paper reveals a significant under-reported emergent phenomenon: the graduates of the well-established ‘Elite Traditional International Schools’ worldwide are beginning to cluster in certain universities, in certain ‘global cities’. As one might expect, New York and London are central to this clustering, alongside Boston, Toronto and Vancouver. Surprisingly, these destinations are not the world’s top, elite universities, showing that the forms…
The Dilemmas of Leadership and the Virtues of Policy Scholarship
In this book Gerald Grace could well have taken as his point of departure R.H. Tawney's dictum that 'an appeal to principles is the condition of any ... reconstruction of society, because social institutions are the visible expression of the scale of moral values ... and it is impossible to alter institutions without altering that valuation' (Tawney, 1982, p. 10). As the title of this book suggests, it is not about management and, in fact, it is …
Democracy and the effective schools movement in New Zealand
What is to be done with radical academic practice
Since the mid 1970s, radical analysis of formal educational institutions has become dominated by a form of academic Marxism or neo-Marxism epitomised in the published work of Apple, Willis, Whitty and Giroux, among others. Such work usually includes 'Monday morning chapters' which seek to answer the question: What is to be done? The authors subject this form of theorising to a fundamental critique, seeing it as the product of the forms and proces…
Democracy and the effective schools movement in New Zealand
A reply to Geoff Whitty
Education, Economy and Social Change
In advanced industrial societies the educational system has been identified as making a major contribution to national economic prosperity. In this paper we examine how the educational system should be organised to meet the social and economic challenge of the late twentieth century. In asking this question the intention is to redirect current debates towards a more thorough going discussion about the interrelationship between education, economy …
Education, Democracy and the Economy
This paper provides a critique of neo‐liberal political economy of education. It is argued that neo‐liberal ideology trades off democracy against 'economic efficiency'. However, the consequence of the application of neo‐liberal principles to education is that overall standards of education are likely to decline, thereby creating the conditions for a low skilled, low morale workforce. It is suggested that this outcome is consistent with the Neo‐li…
Education, globalization and economic development
This paper critically examines two trajectories for economic development under the new global economic competition: the neo‐Fordist route of the New Right and the post‐Fordist route of centre‐left Modernizers. It is argued that both positions are unlikely to achieve economic prosperity and equality of opportunity for all, although there are elements in the Modernizers’ programme that are desirable. The Modernizers emphasize the idea of a ‘high sk…
The Dilemmas of Leadership and the Virtues of Policy Scholarship
In this book Gerald Grace could well have taken as his point of departure R.H. Tawney's dictum that 'an appeal to principles is the condition of any ... reconstruction of society, because social institutions are the visible expression of the scale of moral values ... and it is impossible to alter institutions without altering that valuation' (Tawney, 1982, p. 10). As the title of this book suggests, it is not about management and, in fact, it is …
Education Culture, Economy, and Society
Education aims to establish the social study of education at the centre of political and sociological debate about post industrial societies. It looks at major changes which have taken place in the late 20th century and at educational policy
The Dilemmas of Comparative Research and Policy Importation
(2000). The Dilemmas of Comparative Research and Policy Importation. British Journal of Sociology of Education: Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 465-475
High Skills: Globalization, Competitiveness, and Skill Formation
Economic globalization has led to debates about competitiveness of nations. Prosperity, social justice, and welfare depend on the creation of a high-skilled workforce. This book discusses whether optimism over a future high skills economy is justified.
School composition and peer effects
Capitalism and Social Progress: The Future of Society in a Global Economy
Why are America and Britain wealthier than ever but millions of children live in poverty, neighbourhoods want for basic amenities and the middle classes fear for their families, jobs and futures? The answer is not to be found in globalization, technological innovation, or our personal failings to adapt to changing circumstances as we are so often told. The answer lies mainly with the historical legacy of the 'golden era' and the obsession with ma…
Sociology and political arithmetic: Some Principles of a New Policy Science1
This paper advances the position that sociology needs to develop an approach to research which focuses on fundamental social problems. In doing so it shares many of the intellectual values and goals of political arithmetic while seeking to move methodologically beyond it. Since such problems are complex they will require, typically, interdisciplinary input and a concomitant approach to the development and appraisal of theories. We are not, theref…
Globalisation, knowledge and the myth of the magnet economy
This article examines the dominant view of the changing relationship between education, jobs and rewards in the global knowledge economy. This asserts that the developed economies can resolve issues of individual aspirations, economic efficiency and social justice through the creation of a high‐skills, high‐wage ‘magnet’ economy. Here the authors examine four of the key dimensions of this account and argue that while there has been a fundamental …
Globalisation, Skill Formation and the Varieties of Capitalism Approach
This paper is concerned to evaluate the varieties of capitalism approach to global institutional convergence and divergence as represented by the skill formation and welfare state theory of Margarita Estevez-Abe, Torben Iversen and David Soskice. They argue that the configuration of particular skills and labor markets distinctive of national economies can explain key aspects of welfare state provision. This paper makes the case that the generatio…
The Global Auction: The Broken Promises of Education, Jobs, and Incomes
For decades, the idea that more education will lead to greater individual and national prosperity has been a cornerstone of developed economies. Indeed, it is almost universally believed that college diplomas give Americans and Europeans a competitive advantage in the global knowledge wars. Challenging this conventional wisdom, this book forces us to reconsider our deeply held and mistaken views about how the global economy really works and how t…
Towards Successful Schooling (RLE Edu l Sociology of Education)
Globalizing education, educating the local: How method made us mad
Book review of 'Globalizing education, educating the local: how method made us mad', by Ian Stronach, London, Routledge, 2010, 240 pp
Human capital theory, the power of transnational companies and a political response in relation to education and economic development
Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future
Reviewed by Ian McGimpsey, Stuart Tannock and Hugh LauderAt the time of writing, the headlines are dominated by Brexit and a phone game called Pokemon Go. A reading of Postcapitalism: A Guide to ou
The case against education: Why the education system is a waste of time and money
Reviewed by Ewart Keep, Anna Vignoles and Hugh LauderBryan Caplan is an American academic economist and libertarian. The arguments The Case Against Education seeks to construct can be distilled fro
The Death of Human Capital?: Its Failed Promise and How to Renew It in an Age of Disruption
Human capital theory, the notion that there is a direct relationship between educational investment and individual and national prosperity, has dominated public policy on education and labor for the past fifty years. This book describes the development of human capital theory and why it has turned into a failed revolution. It outlines an alternative theory that re-defines human capital in an age of smart machines. The new human capital rejects th…
The roles of higher education, further education and lifelong learning in the future economy
This special issue of the journal is devoted to the contribution of higher education, further education and lifelong learning to the future economy. To consider this question at the time of a pande
Remembering Geoff Mason
This special issue of the Journal is dedicated to Geoff Mason who died in June this year. Geoff was a leading economist of education. He was born in Dunedin (NZ) and after some time in Switzerland
Higher education and the labour market: An introduction
‘Tertiary education has seen unprecedented growth in the past decade, but there is a significant share of graduates who struggle to find good jobs, while employers say they cannot find the people w
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