Individualism And Community: Education And Social Policy In The Postmodern Condition

ISBN-13: 9780750704854 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 248 str.

Michael Peters; James Marshall; Peters Michael

Opis

Examining, in the widest sense, the changes in political philosophy that have occurred in Western capitalist states since the early 1980s, this book focuses on the introduction of neo-liberal principles in the combined area of social and education policy.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Crisis of the Welfare State in the Postmodern Condition; Section I: Communitarian Responses to the Crisis; Chapter 1 Social Policy and the Move to Community; Chapter 2 Democracy and Community-based Social Policy; Chapter 3 Welfare and the Future of Community: The New Zealand Experiment; Section II: Neo-liberal Individualism; Chapter 4 The New Right Reforms of Education; Chapter 5 The Politics of Choice: Public Choice Theory and the Autonomous Chooser; Chapter 6 Children of Rogernomics: The New Right, Individualism and the Culture of Narcissism; Section III: Methodological Responses to the Crisis; Chapter 7 From Evaluation to Education: The Ideal Learning Community; Chapter 8 Educational Policy Analysis and the Politics of Interpretation; Section IV: The Postmodern ‘Way Out’; Chapter 9 Postmodernism: The Critique of Reason and the Rise of New Social Movements; Chapter 10 Beyond the Philosophy of the Subject: Liberalism, Education and the Critique of Individualism; Chapter 11 Individualism and Community: Education and the Politics of Difference; Conclusion: Critical Social Policy in The Postmodern Condition; Bibliography Index;

O autorze

Michael Peters