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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812385103321

Autore

Olssen Mark

Titolo

Education policy : globalization, citizenship and democracy / / Mark Olssen, John Codd, and Anne-Marie O'Neill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif., : Sage, 2004

ISBN

0-7619-7470-9

1-4462-3349-9

1-280-37089-0

9786610370894

1-4129-3309-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 326 p.) : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

CoddJohn A

O'NeillAnne-Marie <1959->

Disciplina

379

Soggetti

Education and state

Social policy

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 (p. 282-314) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; About the Authors; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 - Reading Education Policy in the Global Era; Chapter 2 - The Post-structuralism of Foucault; Chapter 3 - Critical Policy Analysis: A Foucauldian Approach; Chapter 4 - Policy as Text and Policy as Discourse: A Framework for Analysis; Chapter 5 - Classical Liberalism; Chapter 6 - Social Democratic Liberalism; Chapter 7 - The Ascendancy of Neoliberalism; Chapter 8 - Neoliberal Theories of Institutional Restructuring; Chapter 9 - Markets, Professionalism, Trust; Chapter 10 - Discourses of Choice, Inequality and Social Diversity

Chapter 11 - Democracy, Citzenship and the 'Thin' CommunityChapter 12 - Globalization, Democracy and Education; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Providing an international perspective on education policy, and of the role and function of education in the global economy this text covers the major topics of central significance in education and the sociology of education.