Risk Society and School Educational Policy

ISBN-13: 9780367585877 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 226 str.

Grant Rodwell

Opis

Risk Society and School Educational Policy explores the impact of risk society on policy globally through both practical and theoretical perspectives. The book both develops an in-depth understanding of risk society itself, and guides the reader in applying this knowledge to the problem of how this impacts policy and practice in school education

Spis treści

Contents

Acknowledgements

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Preface

Introduction

Chapter One The looming presence of risk society

Chapter Two Risk society theory arrives

Chapter Three Young people and families living in risk society

Chapter Four Risk society theory, neoliberalism, school education, mainstream and social media

Chapter Five National governments respond

Chapter Six National standardised testing and reporting

Chapter Seven National curricular

Chapter Eight Teachers, universities and teacher preparation

Chapter Nine Contexts: bringing it together

Index

O autorze

Grant Rodwell is an Adjunct Research Academic at the School of Education at the University of Tasmania, Australia.