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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783884203321

Autore

Peters Michael

Titolo

Individualism and community : education and social policy in the postmodern condition / / Michael Peters and James Marshall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : RoutledgeFalmer, , 1996

ISBN

1-135-71794-X

1-280-54365-5

0-203-45385-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 237 pages) : illustrations

Collana

New prospects series

Altri autori (Persone)

MarshallJames

Disciplina

370.19

Soggetti

Education - Social aspects - New Zealand

Education - Political aspects - New Zealand

Postmodernism and education - New Zealand

Individualism - New Zealand

Communitarianism - New Zealand

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; List of Figures; Introduction: The Crisis of the Welfare State in the Postmodern Condition; Social Policy and the Move to Community; Democracy and Community-based Social Policy; Welfare and the Future of Community: The New Zealand Experiment; The New Right Reforms of Education; The Politics of Choice: Public Choice Theory and the Autonomous Chooser; Children of Rogernomics: The New Right, Individualism and the Culture of Narcissism; From Education to Evaluation: The Ideal Learning Community

Educational Policy Analysis and the Politics of Interpretation Postmodernism: The Critique of Reason and the Rise of the New Social Movements; Beyond the Philosophy of the Subject: Liberalism, Education and the Critique of Individualism; Individualism and Community: Education and the Politics of Difference; Conclusion: Critical Social Policy in the Postmodern Condition; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Examining, in the widest sense, the changes in political philosophy that have occurred in Western capitalist states since the early 1980's, this



book focuses on the introduction of neo-liberal principles in the combined area of social and education