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This innovative volume makes a key contribution to debates around the role of the university as a space of resistance by highlighting the liberatory practices undertaken to oppose dual pressures of state repression and neoliberal reform at the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) in Nicaragua. Using a critical ethnographic approach to frame the experiences of faculty and students through vignettes, chapters present contextualized, analytical contributions from students, scholars, and university leaders to draw attention to the activism present within teaching, research, and administration while simultaneously calling attention to critical higher education and international solidarity as crucial means of maintaining academic freedom, university autonomy, oppositional knowledge production, and social outreach in higher education globally. This text will benefit researchers, students, and academics in the fields of higher education, educational policy and politics, and international and comparative education. Those interested in equality and human rights, Central America, and the themes of revolution and protest more broadly will also benefit from this volume.

In 'The State, The Family and Education', first published in 1980, Miriam David provides an entirely new analysis of the relationship of the state to the family and education. David explains how the state, through its educational policies, regulates family relationships with, and within, schools. This book provides a welcome analysis of educational policy from a socialist-feminist perspective, re-examining the ways in which women as parents, teachers and pupils are involved in the education system

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for Mass Intellectuality of the Neoliberal State -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: The Political Potential of Mass Intellectuality -- 1.1 The Condition of Mass Intellectuality -- 1.2 Researching the Orientations of Mass Intellectuality in the University System -- 1.3 Effects of Mass Intellectuality in the Neoliberal State -- 1.4 Overview -- References -- Chapter 2: The Non-bureaucratic Basis of the Bureaucracy: Universities and Mass Intellectuality -- 2.1 Ideological Socialisation of Mass Intellectuality: Theoretical Remarks -- 2.1.1 Class, Professions, and Mass Intellectuality -- 2.1.2 Socialisation of Public Professionalism: Ideals and Ideology -- 2.2 Data Collection and Analysis -- 2.3 Universities as Ideological State Apparatuses -- 2.3.1 University Reform and Counter-Reform: From Development to Neoliberalism -- 2.3.2 Massification, Marketisation, and Material Differentiation -- 2.3.3 Patterns of Ideological Differentiation -- (A) Public-Elite -- (B) Private-Elite -- (C) Private-Mass/Commercially-Oriented -- (D) Private-Mass/Public-Oriented -- (E) Public-Mass -- 2.4 The 2011 Student Movement and the Politicisation of Intellectual Labour -- References -- List of Referenced Interviews -- Chapter 3: The Shift of State Autonomy: From Formal Bureaucracy to Autonomous State Work -- 3.1 The Classical Framework of Bureaucratic Action and Its Functionalist Critique -- 3.1.1 Weber's Classical Framework -- 3.1.2 The Functionalist Critique -- 3.2 Marxist and Post-Marxist Theories on State Autonomy in Advanced Capitalism -- 3.2.1 Relative Autonomy and State Power -- 3.2.2 Transformations of the State Apparatus -- 3.2.3 The Technocratic Rediscovery of State Autonomy -- 3.3 Post-Structuralist Approaches: Mass Intellectuality, Neoliberalism, and Post-Bureaucracies.

Creating a truly national school system has, over the past fifty years, reconfigured local expectations and practices in American public education. Through a 50-year examination of Alexandria, Virginia, this book reveals how the 'education state' is nonetheless shaped by the commitments of local political regimes and their leaders and constituents.

1. Introduction : neoliberalism, social networks, and the new governance of education / Wayne Au and Joseph J. Ferrare -- 2. mEducation as a site of network governance / Diego Santori, Stephen J. Ball, and Carolina Junemann -- 3. Network restructuring of global edu-business : the case of Pearson's efficacy framework / Anna Hogan, Sam Sellar and Bob Lingard -- 4. Mapping the education entrepreneurial network : teach for America, charter school reform, and corporate sponsorship / Beth Sondel, Kerry Kretchmar, and Joseph J. Ferrare -- 5. International access project : a network analysis of an emerging international curriculum program in China / Shuning Liu -- 6. Mapping neoliberal reform in Chile : following the development and legitimation of the Chilean system of school quality measurement (SIMCE) / Javier Campos-Martnez, Francisca Corbalan Possel, and Jorge Inzunza -- 7. Mapping the discourse of neoliberal education reform : space, power, and access in Chicago's renaissance 2010 debate / Sarah Bell -- 8. Other people's policy : wealthy elites and charter school reform in Washington state / Wayne Au and Joseph J. Ferrare -- 9. Gangsta raps, power gaps, and network maps : how the charter school market came to New Orleans / Kristen L. Buras -- 10. Enterprise education policy and embedded layers of corporate influence / Patricia Burch and Jahni M. A. Smith.

Preliminary Material /Laura C. Engel -- New State Formations in Education Policy /Laura C. Engel -- Globalization and State Formations /Laura C. Engel -- Constructing the New Spanish State /Laura C. Engel -- Decentralization in the Post-Franco Era /Laura C. Engel -- Global Pressures and EU Educational Priorities /Laura C. Engel -- Rescaling and the Politics of Decentralization /Laura C. Engel -- References /Laura C. Engel -- Index /Laura C. Engel.

I. The Economy of California: How It has Developed and How It is Related to the Educational System -- A Few Introductory Remarks -- Income in California -- The Population of the State -- A First View of Labor Force -- California Manufacturing -- Occupations, Present and Projected -- The Public Sector in California -- II. Structure of the Education System in California -- The Structure of Education -- School Districts are Independent Units of Government -- Unequal Resources for Education -- The Growing Role of Federal Aid -- Complex System of Coordination -- State Board Controls are Limited but Rigidities are Present -- The Private Elementary and Secondary Schools -- The System of Higher Education -- Financing -- Differentiated Admission -- High Rates of Drop-out -- Access to Higher Education -- Enrollments -- An Overview of Education in California -- III. The Expansion of Education in California: A Closer Examination -- Projections of Educational Out-turn and the Problem of Educated Unemployed -- Expenditure Flows in Different Branches of the California Education System -- The Rising Concern with Internal Efficiency -- Public Elementary and Secondary Schools -- The University of California -- Alternatives for Fiscal Reform -- The Schools -- Higher Education -- The Social Efficiency of California's Educational Enterprises -- IV. Planning — Success or Failure? -- State Budgeting for Public Higher Education -- The Master Plan: Its Relations to Annual Budgeting -- The Period of Disenchantment -- Program Budgeting: Another Failure? -- Manpower Planning -- V. Adult Education in California -- The 'Hidden' Adult Education Activity -- Business and Industry -- Government -- The Military -- Poverty Programs -- Television -- Correspondence -- Proprietary Schools -- 'Free' Universities -- Other Programs -- More Visible Adult Education Programs -- The University -- General Extension -- Agricultural Extension -- The State Colleges -- Community or Junior College -- Secondary Schools -- The Extended University -- VI. Future Trends in California's Educational System -- The Changing Functions of Education in California and the Consequences for Planning -- Implications for Policy -- Bibliography — A selection -- Biographical Notes.

Intro -- THE SCIENCE OF HIGHER EDUCATION: State Higher Education Policy and the Laws of Scale -- COPYRIGHT © 2021 BY STYLUS PUBLISHING, LLC -- Table of Contents -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS FOR A SCIENCE OF HIGHER EDUCATION -- CHAPTER 1: COMPLEX SYSTEMS AND STATE HIGHER EDUCATION -- CHAPTER 2: A NEW PARADIGM -- CHAPTER 3: ACTOR INTERACTIONS: Nature and Context -- PART TWO: SCALE PATTERNS -- CHAPTER 4: LESSONS FROM LIFE SCIENCES AND CITIES -- CHAPTER 5: SCALE AND STATE HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDING -- CHAPTER 6: SCALE AND STATE POLICY -- CHAPTER 7: HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPLY -- PART THREE: OUTCOMES AND RETURN ON INVESTMENT -- CHAPTER 8: HIGHER EDUCATION OUTCOMES -- CHAPTER 9: RETURN ON INVESTMENT: Funding and Outcomes -- CHAPTER 10: POLICY IMPLICATIONS -- APPENDIX A: Glossary of Terms -- APPENDIX B: 2015 All State Data (Original Units) -- APPENDIX C: Logarithmic Regression Results (Predictions) -- APPENDIX D: Population:Funding Scale Results -- APPENDIX E: Population:Enrollment Scale Results -- APPENDIX F: Population:Completion Scale Results -- APPENDIX G: Population:Institutions (Supply) Scale Results -- APPENDIX H: Funding:Enrollment Scale Results -- APPENDIX I: Funding:Completion Scale Results -- APPENDIX J: Statistical Results: All Scale Analysis -- APPENDIX K: Linear and Scale Ranking Comparisons -- APPENDIX L: Exponents, Logarithms, and Scale Review -- REFERENCES -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- INDEX.