Record Number |
20014 |
ISBN |
9781138348226 |
1138348228 |
Location |
371.195 CHA |
Title |
Challenges for public education : reconceptualising educational leadership, policy and social justice as resources for hope / edited by Jane Wilkinson, Richard Niesche and Scott Eacott. |
Published |
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. |
©2019. |
Collation |
x, 181 pages ; 24 cm. |
Content types |
text |
Carrier type |
volume |
Series |
Local/global issues in education |
Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents Note |
Challenges for public education : perils and possibilities for educational leadership, policy and social justice / Jane Wilkinson, Richard Niesche and Scott Eacott -- Re-imagining leadership as a resource of and for educational practice/praxis in neo-liberal times / Jane Wilkinson -- School and principal autonomy : resisting, not manufacturing the neoliberal subject / Richard Niesche -- Educational leadership research and the dismantling of public education : a relational approach / Scott Eacott -- Competitive entrepreneurship and community empowerment : competing practices of a school autonomy reform / Brad Gobby -- Exploring a school improvement initiative : leadership and policy enactment in Queensland's independent public schools / Amanda Heffernan -- Depoliticisation and education policy / Helen M. Gunter -- Oh to be in England? : the production of an unpublic state system / Pat Thomson -- Shifting logics : education and privatisation the Swedish way / Nafsika Alexiadou, Lisbeth Lundahl, Linda Rönnberg -- To be "in the tent" or abandon it? : a school clusters policy and the responses of New Zealand educational leaders / Martin Thrupp -- The rise of authoritarian neoliberalism : how neoliberalism threatens public education and democracy / David Hursh -- Restoring the "publicness" of public education / Alan Reid. |
Summary Note |
"An accelerating pattern in Australia and internationally is the dismantling of public education systems as part of a long-standing trend towards the modernisation, marketisation and privatisation of educational provision. Responsibility for direct delivery of education services has been shifted to contracting and monitoring under the clarion call of school and leadership autonomy and parental choice. Part of this pattern is an increasing blurring of boundaries between the state and private sector, a move from government to new forms of 'strategic' governance, and from hierarchy to heterarchy. 'Challenges for public education' examines the educational leadership, policy and social justice implications of these trends in Australia and internationally. It maps this movement through early shifts to school-based management in Australia, New Zealand and Sweden and recent moves such as the academies programme in England and charter schools in the United States. It draws on recent studies of a distinct new phase in Australian school reform – the creation of ‘independent public schools’ (IPS) in Western Australia and Queensland – and global policy moves in public education in order to provide a truly international dialogue and debate on these matters. This book moves beyond critique. It innovatively brings together Australian and international perspectives and a rich range of diverse theoretical lenses: practice philosophy, feminism, gender, relational, and postmodernism. As such, it provides a crucial forum for illuminating alternate ways to conceptualise educational leadership, policy and social justice as resources for hope." - Back cover. |
Subject |
Education -- Finance |
Education and state |
Privatization in education |
Educational leadership |
Neoliberalism |
Education and state |
Educational leadership |
Neoliberalism |
Privatization in education |
Public schools -- Finance |
Australian |
Added Name |
Wilkinson, Jane, (editor). |
Niesche, Richard, (editor). |
Eacott, Scott, (editor). |