Education reform : a critical and post-structural approach /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ball, Stephen J.
Format: Book
Published: Buckingham : Open University Press, 1997.
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Table of Contents:
  • Post-estructuralism, ethnography and the critical analysis of education reform. What is policy?. Texts, trajectories and toolboxes. Education, majorims and the curriculum of the dead. Education policy, power relations and teachers' work. Cost, culture and control: self-management and entrepreneurial schooling. New headship and school leadership: new relationships and new tensions. Education markets, choice and social class: the market as a class strategy in the UK and USA. Competitive schooling: values, ethics, and cultural engineering