Robert Archer

Education Policy and Realist Social Theory

Primary Teachers, Child-Centred Philosophy and the New Managerialism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Europe welfare state provision has been subjected to 'market forces'. Over the last two decades, the framework of economic competitiveness has become the defining aim of education, to be achieved by new managerialist techniques and mechanisms. This book thoughtfully and persuasively argues against this new vision of education, and offers a different, more useful potential approach. This in-depth major study will be of great interest to researchers in the sociology of education, education policy, social theory, organization and management studies, and also to professionals concerned about the deleterious impact of current education policy on children's learning and welfare.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780415268394
• ISBN-10: 0415268397
• Artikelnr.: 20975287

Autorenporträt

Robert Archer

Inhaltsangabe

1. Structure, Agency and Educational Change: Morphogenesis and the Need for
Analytical Dualism 2. Culture, Organization Theory and the New
Managerialism 3. Socio-Cultural Conditioning: Plowden, the Philosophers and
Teacher Training 4. Socio-Cultural Interaction: Tyndale, Ruskin and the
Black Paper Years 5. Socio-Cultural Elaboration: the 1988 Education Reform
Act and the New Managerialism 6. Southside: Managerialism to the Rescue 7.
Westside: 'You Can Run, But You Can't Hide!' 8. Some Concluding Remarks:
What About the Children?