Global Education Inc.: New Policy Networks and the Neo-Liberal Imaginary

ISBN-13: 9780415684101 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 184 str.

Stephen J Ball

Opis

Do private and philanthropic solutions to the problems of education signal the end of state education in its 'welfare' form? Education policy is being reformed and re-worked on a global scale. Policies are flowing and converging to produce a singular vision of 'best practice' based on the methods and tenets of the 'neo-liberal imaginary'. Philanthropy, business and the governments are coming together in new networks and sites of policy outside of the framework of the nation state. This book is a first step in recording, mapping and making sense of the most important aspects of these new relations and dynamics of policy.

Spis treści

1. Networks, Neo-Liberalism and policy mobilities  2. Doing Neo-liberalism - markets and states, and friends with money  3. Transnational Advocacy Networks and Policy Entrepreneurship: Indiana Jones, business and schooling of the poor  4. 'New' Philanthropy, Social Capitalism and Education Policy  5. Policy as Profit: selling and exporting policy  6. Education as Big Business  7. Money, Meaning and Policy Connections

O autorze

Stephen J. Ball is Karl Mannheim Professor of Sociology of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK.