The Rich World and the Impoverishment of Education : Diminishing Democracy, Equity and Workers' Rights

ISBN-13: 9780415957755 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 290 str.

Dave Hill;Hill Dave

Opis

This book critically identifies and evaluates neoliberal policy and its impacts on schooling/ education in the Rich World. Chapters ask 'What Neoliberal Changes have taken place (e.g. privatisation, vouchers, marketisation, commercialization, school fees, new brutalist public managerialism, and the the assault on the comprehensive / common school principle and on democratic control of schools) and identify neoliberal Drivers' or Levers - national / transnational corporations, think tanks, pressure groups, state power, ideologies/ discourses. The contributors examine the impacts on equality, equal opportunities and access (social class; race'/ ethnic/ linguistic groups; gender, rural/urban differentiation); democracy/ critical thinking; and the pay and conditions of education workers in England and Wales, USA, Australia, Canada, Finland, Portugal, Greece, Singapore and Japan.

O autorze

Dave Hill is Professor of Education Policy at the University of Northampton, England, and Chief Editor of the Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, online at www.jceps.com. He is Routledge Series Editor for Education and Neoliberalism and for Education and Marxism. He is a Socialist political activist, former Labour Parliamentary candidate, Labour Council Group Leader, and trade union regional leader.