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School Sucks! Deconstructing Taylorist Obsessions

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Psychology in Education

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In the early twentieth century American workplace, Frederick Taylor was the icon of industrial efficiency. Taylor’s time and motion studies were used to regulate worker’s regimens and to constitute success in the new modernist science of mechanizing workers to maximize productivity.

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  1. Education Department, Clarion University, United States

    Greg S. Goodman

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  1. The Victoria Institute, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

    Tim Corcoran

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Goodman, G.S. (2014). School Sucks! Deconstructing Taylorist Obsessions. In: Corcoran, T. (eds) Psychology in Education. Bold Visions in Educational Research. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-566-3_5

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