1st Edition

Education Policy, Neoliberalism, and Leadership Practice A Critical Analysis

By Karen Starr Copyright 2019
190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

Education Policy, Neoliberalism, and Leadership Practice is a foundational book describing all aspects of neoliberalism and its broad scale impact in education. Drawing on research and canvassing policy developments across a range of contexts, this book critically analyzes neoliberal education policies, the practices and outcomes they spawn, and the purposes they serve. It interrogates how... Read more

Series Introduction

Acknowledgements

Part 1: A rising tide lifts all boats

Chapter 1 Introduction: The misguided impatience of education policy

Chapter 2 Globalization, the free market and neoliberalism

Chapter 3 Individualism

Chapter 4 Privatization

Chapter 5 Choice

Chapter 6 Competition

Chapter 7 Improvement, innovation and entrepreneurialism

Chapter 8 Efficiency

Chapter 9 Productivity

Chapter 10 Performativity

Chapter 11 Accountability

Part 2: An ebbing tide?

Chapter 12 Education is off course

Chapter 13 What happened to equity?

Chapter 14 The rise of anti-educationalism and bad faith: A changing social psyche

Chapter 15 Education leadership in neoliberal times

Concluding remarks Exposing education’s ‘dirty little secret’: The Emperor has no clothes

Biography

Karen Starr is Professor and Inaugural Chair of School Development and Leadership at Deakin University, Australia.