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Cover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Postmodernism and State Education -- 2 Education and State Formation in Europe and Asia -- 3 Technical Education and State Formation in Nineteenth-Century England and France -- 4 The Roles of the State and the Social Partners in Vocational Education and Training Systems -- 5 Education and Cultural Identity in the United Kingdom -- 6 Educational Achievement in Centralized and Decentralized Systems -- 7 Education, Globalization and the Nation State -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

"Alan Sears examines education reform in relation to a broad process of cultural and economic change. His book makes the case that education reform is one aspect of a broad-ranging neo-liberal agenda that aims to push the market deeper into every aspect of our lives by eliminating or shrinking non-market alternatives. The author begins by showing that advocates of education reform have had to make the case that the current system is not working. This sets the ground for an examination of the so-called "common sense revolution," a claim that drastic change was required to redesign government policies to fit a changing world. Lean production methods are a crucial component of this changing world, and broader social and cultural change is now required to consolidate the emerging order built on the spread of these methods. Education reform is designed to recast the relations of citizenship, contributing to the cultural and social change promoted through the social policy of the lean state."--Jacket

Education Policy provides an international perspective on education policy, and of the role and function of education in the global economy. It covers the major topics of central significance in education and the sociology of education. At the same time it maintains a unique position in respect to globalization, education and the nation state

Legal Issues of Special Education is for university faculty staff teaching courses on education law and policy. It also serves as a resource for students conducting research, government officials, and professionals in these fields. Combating discrimination on the basis of disability and special needs education is an area that is receiving increased attention from the European Commission and the Member States. This is reflected in the fact that the year 2003 has been designated the European Year of Disabled Citizens. This timely book is about raising awareness of the rights of disabled people to full equality and participation in all areas. It aims to show that disability is an issue of concern to all of us

The gap between the demands placed on education in Australia and the resources allocated to it by government has increased dramatically in recent years. The education system is expected to absorb youth unemployment and play a key role in the modernisation of the economy, yet education spending as a proportion of GDP has declined. The notion of education as being important for its own sake and a key to equality in society seems to have been set aside, and economics now dominates debate on education policy. This book summarises and analyses the major issues in Australian education policy today: the relationship between education and work; the reform of higher education and vocational training; outputs, resources and class sizes; the role of government and the public/private debate in schooling. It also examines the main economic theories about education, including human capital theory and free market theory, and finds them seriously inadequate as a basis for policy. The author argues that economic rationalism has installed a free market agenda at the heart of public education policy, with deep consequences for the academic and democratic development of Australia's citizens

This book focuses on the relationship between private and public education in a comparative context. The contributors emphasize the relationship between private choices and public policy as they affect the division of labor between public and private non-profit schools, colleges, and universities. Their essays examine the kinds of choices offered by each sector, as well as the effects of present and proposed public policies on the intersectoral division of labor. Written from neither a pro-private nor a pro-public point of view, the contributors point to the ways in which they believe one sect

Education policy is at the very top of the political agenda - the proclaimed top priority of the 'New Labour' government. Yet Labour has inherited a quasi-market education system and remains under the direction of reform during the coming year. This book examines new directions on issues of selection and educational opportunity, gender and racism and the question of school effectiveness and school improvements. The politics for the National Curriculum and its assessment are explored, alongside issues of lifelong learning and IT policy. The book explores the key questions of the future reform of education in contemporary Britain with contributions from the leading experts in education, education policy, politics and sociology

This book gives a brief account of how social and economic changes have an impact on the Singapore education system, bearing in mind that education and national development are closely related. Besides providing a short history of education in Singapore, the book discusses how the New Education System(NES) was implemented, public response to streaming, and the impact of the NES on educational wastage and attainments

This book emphasises the central place that ethnographic work should have in the formulation and evaluation of education policy. Ethnographic studies contribute to a greater understanding of the process formulation, evaluation and critique. First, careful studies of policy initiatives at the local level can show the extent to which change actually occurs in practice. Second, ethnographic studies can investigate the unintended consequences as well as those planned by the policy. Third, ethnography can investigate the effects of policies in such a way that contradictions within the original policy itself are illuminated. As well as studying the effects and impact of policy, ethnography can also be useful in the formulation of new policies. The various chapters gathered together here give many examples of the ways that ethnography can trace the effects of particular policy developments and may be able to influence future policy debates. The contributors and case studies relate to several countries including the United States, Italy, England, France, Sweden and Switzerland, showing not only that ethnographic research in education is now widespread, but also increasing relevance to policy.

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Section I Framings -- One Global and Local Patterns of Governing the Child, Family, their Care, and Education: An Introduction -- Section II The Family and Child as An Object of Governing -- Two Governing the Child and Pedagogicalization of the Parent: A Historical Excursus into the Present -- Three Governing New Realities and Old Ideologies: A Gendered, Power-based, and Class-related Process -- Four Educational Policy after Welfare: Reshaping Patterns of Governing Children and Families in Argentinean Education -- Section III The Embodied Social and Welfare State -- Five Constructing a Parent -- Six Early Childhood Education: The Duty of Family or Institutions? -- Seven Teenage Parenthood is Bad for Parents and Children: A Feminist Critique of Family, Education, and Social Welfare Policies and Practices -- Eight Child Welfare in the United States: The Construction of Gendered, Oppositional Discourse(s) -- Nine Global/Local Analyses of the Construction of "Family-Child Welfare" -- Ten Governing Children and Families in Kenya: Losing Ground in Neoliberal Times -- Section IV Limiting the Boundaries of Reason: New Possibilities/Impossibilities -- Eleven Pedagogy as a Loci of an Ethics of an Encounter -- Twelve Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Language, Deaf Education, and the Governance of the Child in Historical Perspective -- Thirteen The Web, Antiracism, Education, and the State in Sweden: Why Here? Why Now? -- Contributors -- Index.