Challenges for Public Education: Reconceptualising Educational Leadership, Policy and Social Justice as Resources for Hope

ISBN-13: 9781138348202 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 182 str.

Jane Wilkinson; Richard Niesche; Scott Eacott

Opis

This book explores the educational leadership, policy and social justice implications of the increasing dismantling of public education systems and the privatisation of educational provision.

Spis treści

List of illustrations  Acknowledgements  Series editors’ preface  1 Challenges for public education: Perils and possibilities for educational leadership, policy and social justice (Jane Wilkinson, Scott Eacott and Richard Niesche)  Part I: Theoretical possibilities  2 Re-imagining leadership as a resource of and for educational practice/praxis in neoliberal times (Jane Wilkinson)  3 School and principal autonomy: Resisting, not manufacturing, the neoliberal subject (Richard Niesche)  4 Educational leadership research and the dismantling of public education: A relational approach (Scott Eacott)  Part II: Local/international cases: Competing practices of a school autonomy reform  5 Competitive entrepreneurship and community empowerment: Competing practices of a school autonomy reform (Brad Gobby)  6 Exploring a school improvement initiative: Leadership and policy enactment in Queensland’s Independent Public Schools (Amanda Heffernan)  7 Depoliticisation and education policy (Helen M. Gunter)  8 Oh to be in England?: The production of an un-public state system (Pat Thomson)  9 Shifting logics: Education and privatisation the Swedish way (Nafsika Alexiadou, Lisbeth Lundahl and Linda Rönnberg)  10 To be ‘in the tent’ or abandon it?: A school clusters policy and the responses of New Zealand educational leaders (Martin Thrupp)  11 The rise of authoritarian neoliberalism: How neoliberalism threatens public education and democracy (David Hursh)  Part III: Critical commentary: Alan Reid  12 Restoring the ‘publicness’ of public education (Alan Reid)  Index