Governments around the world are trying to come to terms with new technologies, new social movements and a changing global economy. As a result, educational policy finds itself at the centre of a major political struggle between those who see it only for its instrumental outcomes and those who see its potential for human emancipation. This book is a successor to the best-selling Understanding Schooling (1988). It provides a readable account of how educational policies are developed by the state in response to broader social, cultural, economic and political changes which are...
Governments around the world are trying to come to terms with new technologies, new social movements and a changing global economy. As a result, educa...
Governments around the world are trying to come to terms with new technologies, new social movements and a changing global economy. As a result, educational policy finds itself at the centre of a major political struggle between those who see it only for its instrumental outcomes and those who see its potential for human emancipation. This book is a successor to the best-selling Understanding Schooling (1988). It provides a readable account of how educational policies are developed by the state in response to broader social, cultural, economic and political changes which are...
Governments around the world are trying to come to terms with new technologies, new social movements and a changing global economy. As a result, educa...
Provides the reader with an impressive selection of articles on the education policy and politics from a broad base, including a new introduction from the well-known editors.
Provides the reader with an impressive selection of articles on the education policy and politics from a broad base, including a new introduction from...
This Reader brings together selected papers from leading scholars to address the most significant recent development in educational policy and politics: the impact of globalisation. The papers discuss, document and analyse evidence of globalisation's effects on the new direction of education policies and practices, and in the production of globalised agendas for the redesign of state provision and the governance of education.
The Reader is organised in two parts. The first part provides a selection of articles that interrogate globalisation and its effects from a...
This Reader brings together selected papers from leading scholars to address the most significant recent development in educational policy...
Based on research carried out under Labour governments throughout the 1990s in Western Australia, the authors consider the social, political and economic conditions under which policy is formulated, understood and enacted. They look at how the state structure affects the content and nature of policy statements and provide an outline of the history of policy developments and point to future possibilities and probabilities.
Based on research carried out under Labour governments throughout the 1990s in Western Australia, the authors consider the social, political and econo...
School restructuring is in the spotlight and this text aims to bring together the latest research on policy formations in schools in Australia with comparative references to New Zealand, the USA and UK. The information is based on research carried out by the Labour governments in Western Australia.
School restructuring is in the spotlight and this text aims to bring together the latest research on policy formations in schools in Australia with co...
Educational Research by Association is an archive of an archive. It is a collection of eleven Presidential Addresses delivered over the last 40 years to the annual conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) and published annually in AAREs academic journal, the Australian Educational Researcher (AER). However, it is more than an archive in that the selection and the opening essay seek to plot, evaluate and contribute to definitions of education research and its functions and purposes in a changing world, and to consider its impact, broadly defined, in both actual...
Educational Research by Association is an archive of an archive. It is a collection of eleven Presidential Addresses delivered over the last 40 years ...
In the World Library of Educationalists, international experts compile career long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces of work - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions - so the world can read them in a single manageable volume. Readers will be able to follow the themes and strands and see how their work contributes to the development of the field. Bob Lingard has spent the last 30 years researching and writing in universities in Australia, England and Scotland about changing education policy issues. His...
In the World Library of Educationalists, international experts compile career long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces of work - ...
Over the last two decades, large-scale national, or provincial, standardised testing has become prominent in the schools of many countries around the globe. National Testing in Schools: An Australian Assessment draws on research to consider the nature of national testing and its multiple effects, including:
media responses and constructions such as league tables of performance
pressures within school systems and on schools
effects on the work and identities of principals and teachers
and impacts on the...
Over the last two decades, large-scale national, or provincial, standardised testing has become prominent in the schools of many countries around t...
Over the last two decades, large-scale national, or provincial, standardised testing has become prominent in the schools of many countries around the globe. National Testing in Schools: An Australian Assessment draws on research to consider the nature of national testing and its multiple effects, including:
media responses and constructions such as league tables of performance
pressures within school systems and on schools
effects on the work and identities of principals and teachers
and impacts on the...
Over the last two decades, large-scale national, or provincial, standardised testing has become prominent in the schools of many countries around t...
