The relationship between welfare and the state has undergone a sustained process of reconfiguration over the past two decades and managerialism has played a key role in this process. In education, parents are now seen as consumers and schools as small businesses, their income dependent on their success in attracting customers within competitive local 'markets'.
At the same time, management practices borrowed from business, such as target setting and performance monitoring, now play a key role in regulating schools.
What kinds of schools are the reforms producing? What impact are they...

The relationship between welfare and the state has undergone a steady process of reconfiguration over the past two decades and 'managerialism' has played a key role in this process. In education, parents are now seen as consumers and schools as small businesses, their income dependent on their success in attracting customers within the competitive local markets. What kind of schools are the reforms producing? What impact are they having on school culture and values? What are the social justice implications of applying a business model to the provision of schooling? In The Managerial School...

This is a profile of people known as Burakumin, a Japanese minority group with a history of many centuries. The Burakumin is an "in- visible race" which, unlike the Negro and other races in America, lacks stigma of color or other physical distinctions. Not invisible is it other- wise, for Burakumin are unlike the majority Japanese in a variety of cultural features historically derivative from discrimination and pre- judice which Burakumin have long suffered. This study of Burakumin focused on the responses of two compulso- ry schools to the problems of this minority group. Other research foci...