Confronting Educational Policy in Neoliberal Times
Title | Confronting Educational Policy in Neoliberal Times PDF eBook |
Author | Stephanie Chitpin |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 179 |
Release | 2019-01-08 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1351369210 |
This volume explores how educational policy is changing as a result of neoliberal restructuring and how these issues affect educators’ practice. Evidence-based chapters present a sharp analysis of neoliberal education policy while also offering suggestions and recommendations for future action to bring about change consistent with more robust understandings of democracy. Covering issues relating to historical context, philosophical assumptions, policy implementation, accountability, teacher professionalism and standardization, Confronting Educational Policy in Neoliberal Times critically engages the ways micro- and macro- neoliberal politics shapes the purposes and implementation of schooling.
Confronting Educational Policy in Neoliberal Times
Title | Confronting Educational Policy in Neoliberal Times PDF eBook |
Author | Stephanie Chitpin |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 2019-01-08 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1351369202 |
This volume explores how educational policy is changing as a result of neoliberal restructuring and how these issues affect educators’ practice. Evidence-based chapters present a sharp analysis of neoliberal education policy while also offering suggestions and recommendations for future action to bring about change consistent with more robust understandings of democracy. Covering issues relating to historical context, philosophical assumptions, policy implementation, accountability, teacher professionalism and standardization, Confronting Educational Policy in Neoliberal Times critically engages the ways micro- and macro- neoliberal politics shapes the purposes and implementation of schooling.
Education and Political Subjectivities in Neoliberal Times and Places
Title | Education and Political Subjectivities in Neoliberal Times and Places PDF eBook |
Author | Eva Reimers |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2016-10-04 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1317333136 |
Education and Political Subjectivities in Neoliberal Times and Places investigates the conditions and possibilities for political subjectivities to emerge in international educational contexts, where neoliberal norms are repeated, performed and transformed. Through demonstrating the possibility of political subjectivities, this book argues that neoliberalism should neither be considered post-political, nor a natural law by which educational practices have to abide. This book considers how political subjectivities are made possible in education in spite of dominant neoliberal norms. Chapters address key theoretical discussions surrounding these different, sometimes contradicting, norms and their relationship to education, economy and politics. This innovative approach considers diverse educational and political initiatives in the wake of new public management, postcolonial perspectives on neoliberal education, and educational practices and critical possibilities. The book advocates understanding and enacting democracy as an experiment, based on the conception that democracy is constantly constructed and constitutes a transformative process in society in general as well as in education. This book advances the argument that there is still room for political subjectivity in spite of the dominance of neoliberal educational governance. It will appeal to researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the fields of higher education, education policy and politics, sociology of education and comparative and international education, as well as those interested in neoliberalism, new public management, and inequality.
Adult Education in Neoliberal Times
Title | Adult Education in Neoliberal Times PDF eBook |
Author | Marion Bowl |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 201 |
Release | 2017-03-20 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 3319508830 |
This book explores the realities of adult education practice in the current political and economic climate. With a particular focus on examining the effect of the multitude of changes in policy and philosophy over the past 30 years, the book explores how the values and career expectations of adult educators have been affected, and considers the implications for adult education as a field of professional practice. As well as exploring the broader international picture, the book draws on the findings of recent research into adult and community education practitioners’ perspectives in two case study countries – England and Aotearoa/New Zealand – to illustrate how local contexts and cultures, as well as global trends, impact on the structure and organisation of adult education. By presenting the perspectives of adult educators, whose voices have been relatively absent from the recent literature, this book gives a unique insight into how their work has been adversely affected by funding and policy pressures in an increasingly insecure educational environment, and analyses their responses to the contradictions between their professional values and the expectations placed upon them by policy and funding changes. It will be of great interest to students and researchers working in Education and Sociology, and will also make compelling reading for policy-makers.
Leading under Pressure
Title | Leading under Pressure PDF eBook |
Author | Stephanie Chitpin |
Publisher | Emerald Group Publishing |
Pages | 229 |
Release | 2022-08-15 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1801173605 |
Divided into three sections, this volume firstly seeks to explore social contexts of educational leadership. The second section explores the experiences of educational leaders in various contexts, while the third section of this volume looks at the consequences, unintended and otherwise, of the neoliberal commodification of education.
Neoliberalism and Education Systems in Conflict
Title | Neoliberalism and Education Systems in Conflict PDF eBook |
Author | Khalid Arar |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 2020-12-29 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1000282988 |
Neoliberalism and Education Systems in Conflict: Exploring Challenges Across the Globe explores how neoliberal values are imprinted onto educational spaces and practices, and by consequence, fundamentally reshape how we come to understand the educational experience at the school or system level. Countries across the globe struggle with the residual effects of increased accountability, choice/voucher systems, and privatization. The first section of the book discusses the direct imprint of neoliberal policies on educational spaces. The next section examines the more indirect outcomes of neoliberalism, including the challenges of inequity, access, violence, racism, and social justice issues as a result of neoliberal ideologies. Each section of the book includes case studies about education systems across the globe, including Britain, Middle East, Turkey, United States, China, and Chile written by international contributors. Neoliberalism and Education Systems in Conflict is essential reading for educators, scholars, and faculty of educational leadership and policy globally.
Education Policy, Neoliberalism, and Leadership Practice
Title | Education Policy, Neoliberalism, and Leadership Practice PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Starr |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 167 |
Release | 2019-04-05 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 135176196X |
Education Policy, Neoliberalism, and Leadership Practice is a foundational book describing all aspects of neoliberalism and its broad scale impact in education. Drawing on research and canvassing policy developments across a range of contexts, this book critically analyzes neoliberal education policies, the practices and outcomes they spawn, and the purposes they serve. It interrogates how education leaders perceive and interpret neoliberal influences and the dilemmas and opportunities they create, while unpacking questions of why neoliberalism is the basis for educational policy, how neoliberalism impacts on education, and what this means for the future.