Education! Education! Education!: Managerial Ethics and the Law of Unintended Consequences

ISBN-13: 9780907845362 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 250 str.

Stephen Prickett; Patricia Erskine-Hill

Opis

The essays in this book criticise the new positivism in education policy, whereby education is systematically reduced to those things that can be measured by so-called 'objective' tests. School curricula have been narrowed with an emphasis on measurable results in the 3 R's and the 'quality' of university departments is now assessed by managerial exercises based on commercial audit practice. As a result, the traditional notion of liberal arts education has been replaced by utilitarian productivity indices.