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Challenging the System? a Dramatic Tale of Neoliberal Reform in an Australian High School (Education Policy in Practice: Critical Cultural Studies) - Softcover

Book 4 of 13: Education Policy in Practice: Critical Cultural Studies

Forsey, Martin

 
9781593115784: Challenging the System? a Dramatic Tale of Neoliberal Reform in an Australian High School (Education Policy in Practice: Critical Cultural Studies)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1593115784 ISBN 13: 9781593115784
Publisher: Information Age Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

Based on extended, intensive fieldwork in an Australian high school, Challenging the System illuminates issues faced on a daily basis by teachers and educational administrators in many parts of the world.Forsey highlights the tensions arising between neo-liberal emphasis on individual school communities as the engine for competitive excellence in education, and the need for those responsible for running public education to maintain some degree of equity across the whole system. He shows that reforms based purely on market forces are not only undesirable, they are imposible to achieve. Governments do not want to lose control of highly significant cultural and political systems, nor can they stray too far from at least appearing to support the egalitarian ideals purportedly underpinning modern democracies.

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Publisher
Information Age Publishing
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1593115784
ISBN 13 
9781593115784
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
208