Education Policy: Globalization, Citizenship and Democracy

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SAGE, 08/06/2004 - 336 páginas
`Education policy is now a global matter and all the more complex for that. Mark Olssen, John Codd and Ann-Marie O′Neill do us an invaluable service in producing a carefully theorised guide to current issues and key concerns - this is an important, erudite and very practical book′ - Stephen J Ball, Education Policy Research Unit, University of London

`Given the global reach of neoliberal policies, we need cogent books that enable us to better understand the major effects such tendencies have. Education Policy is such a book. It is insightful and well written--and should be read by all of us who care deeply about what is happening in education in international contexts′ - Michael W Apple, Author of ′Educating the "Right" Way and John Bascom Professor of Education University of Wisconsin, Madison

`I really am taken with the book, the range and depth of analysis are truly impressive. This book is a magnum opus and everyone in the area should read it′- Hugh Lauder, University of Bath

`In their insightful and comprehensive book on education policy Mark Olssen, John Codd and Anne-Marie O′Neill wrestle with the big questions of citizenship and democracy in an age of globalization. They argue that ducation policy in the 21st century is the key to security, sustainability and survival. The book, anchored in the poststructuralist perspective of Michel Foucault, traverses the whole territory of education policy not only methods and approaches of policy analysis and the dominant political perspectives that influence policy-classical liberalism, social democracy and neo-liberalism--but also those policy areas that require the closest scrutiny: markets, trust, professionalism, choice, diversity, and finally, community, citizenship and democracy. This is the new policy bible for educationalists - it is at once systematic, provocative and instructive′ - Michael A Peters, Research Professor, University of Glasgow

′It is rare indeed for books with such ambitious scope as this one to appear within educational scholarship... This is an important book for any graduate student who is undertaking work on any aspect of education policy′ - Education Review

This book provides an international perspective on education policy, and of the role and function of education in the global economy. The authors present a Foucauldian perspective on the politics of liberal education, within a theoretical framework necessary for the critical analysis of education policy.

The authors set out the analyses necessary for understanding the restructuring in education and social policy that has occurred in many countries affected by the resurgence of neo-liberal political theory. They examine education policy in relation to globalization, citizenship and democracy. The authors argue that globalization is an extension of neoliberalism and is destructive of the nation state, community and democracy. They show the importance of education in building strong democratic nation states and global communities based on cultural identity and inter-cultural awareness.

This book is essential reading for students of education policy studies and social policy analysis.

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The doctrine of monetarism
139
Austrian and Chicago economics
142
Human Capital Theory
146
Neoliberal Theories of Institutional Restructuring
153
Agency Theory
160
Transaction Cost Economics
162
Libertarian political philosophy
165
Foicaults analysis of neoliberalism
167

Discourse
22
Foucault and the state
23
Governmentality
24
Pastoral power
26
Raison détat and Polizei
27
Liberal reason
28
Disciplinary power and biopower
30
Textualism
33
The postmodern turn
34
The return of the political
36
Critical Policy Analysis A Foucauldian Approach
39
The influence of Nietzsche
42
The objects of Foucauldian critique
43
archaeology and genealogy
45
Foucaults departure from structuralism
49
Foucaults materialism
52
Foucault and critical policy analysis
53
Policy as Text and Policy as Discourse A Framework for Analysis
59
Linguistic idealism in the interpretation of policy texts
60
The sociolinguistics of Saussure
64
Theories of discourse
65
Foucault and the discourses of education
66
Framework for discourse analysis
67
Aims of discourse analysis
69
Policy discourse and social structure
71
Classical Liberalism
73
Liberalisms common elements
74
The individual and human nature
75
The historical development of liberal discourse
79
Property rights in Hobbes and Locke
81
Liberalism as a dominant discourse
85
Adam Smith
88
Selfinterest
90
The contradictions of liberalism
93
Human nature and the possessive individualism thesis
94
Hume and possessive individualism
97
Liberalism individualism and education
100
Social Democratic Liberalism
110
The emergence of the welfare state in Britain
115
Green and Hobhouse
118
Twentiethcentury welfarism
122
Keynesian welfare state consensus
125
The historic compromise
127
The development of the welfare state in New Zealand
129
The Ascendancy of Neoliberalism
134
Defining neoliberalism
136
Neoliberalism as a mode of control
171
Markets Professionalism Trust
174
Educational restructuring in New Zealand
175
Similarities and differences
176
Markets and the state
178
Markets and individual freedom
179
Negative and positive liberty
183
The deprofessionalization of education
185
the case of higher education
187
Reconstituting professional work
189
The rebirth of managerialism
190
The culture of distrust
192
Trust and professional accountability
194
Discourses of Choice Inequality and Social Diversity
198
Choice in the 1990s
199
Choice and the third way
200
The rationale for school choice
202
School choice and inequality
204
The limits of choice
205
Social selection and the third way
208
Discourses of diversity and devolution
210
The necessity of state control
212
Contrary directions in the third way
213
Democracy Citizenship and the Thin Community
216
Rawls and his communitarian critics
220
Communitarianism as the basis of social democracy
228
Forms of communitarianism
231
Towards a thin communitarianism
232
Community liberty and justice
235
Communitarianism and educational choice policies
238
The arguments for public schooling restated
240
Globalization Democracy and Education
245
The failure of neoliberalism
246
Rebirth of the welfare state
249
Revising the globalization thesis
253
Cosmopolitan democracy
259
Democracy survival and international relations
262
Democracy multiculturalism and justice
264
Deepening democracy through education
268
Deliberation
271
Contestation
272
educating the democratic capabilities
273
Bibliography
282
Index
315
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