OU Center for Public Management OU Center for Public Management The University of Oklahoma Center for Public Management(CPM) was established in 1994 on the Norman, Oklahoma campus as part of the OU College of Continuing Education's Public and Community Services Division. Using federally approved cost sharing principles and cost reimbursable accounting practices, CPM does business with public and private sector entities. Currently, the Center for Public Management employees approximately 237 staff and services approximately $22,000,000 in contracts per year. These services range from training and professional development in the classroom and online learning to providing professional services in research and analysis. CPM delivered over 130,000
Learning to Labour preface to the Morningside edition, hails the book as a key text in Marxist social reproduction theory about education, advancing previous work in education studies by Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis's , as well as work by Michael Apple and John Dewey. "Learning to Labour" has been recognized by sociologists, critical pedagogues, and researchers in education studies as a landmark study of schooling and culture, and is one of the most cited sociological texts in education studies. "Learning to Labour" represents Paul Willis's ethnographic fieldwork with twelve working-class British male students, attending their second-to-last year of schooling at "Hammertown Boys,"