Education policy and ethics [[electronic resource] /] / Mike Bottery

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782259903321
• Autore: Bottery Mike
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Continuum, 2000
• ISBN: 9786611783815; 1-281-78381-1; 0-8264-1964-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (269 p.)
• Disciplina: 370.1; 379.01
• Soggetti: School management and organization; Education and state - Moral and ethical aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Educational Policies: The Global Context; 2 Educational Policies: The National Context; 3 Managerialism, Leadership and the Assault on Educational Values; 4 Uses and Abuses of Quality: The Need for a Civic Version; 5 The School Effectiveness Movement - Educational Research as an Agent of Policy Direction; 6 Education as Surveillance: The Development of Instruments of Control; 7 Fragmentation and the Loss of Meaning; 8 Getting the Balance Right: Duty as a Core Ethic in the Life of Educators; 9 Education and the Discourse of Civil Society; 10 Empowering an Ecology of ChangeReferences and bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Across the world, a number of long-term trends - globalization, marketization, managerialism - are now impacting on national education policies. Here, Mike Bottery shows how, paradoxically, these forces are making education both more centralized and more fragmented. In this magisterial study of educational policy and practice, he shows the dangers this creates and, in response, how to create a more humane and democratic education system.