1st Edition
Governing the School under Three Decades of Neoliberal Reform From Educracy to the Education-Industrial Complex
By Richard Münch
Copyright 2020
262 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book provides a critical analysis of the neoliberal reform agenda of the economic governance of schools. Focusing on the role of the United States in this process, it explores the transformation of schools in this agenda from educational establishments to enterprises in a competitive education market. The study uses Bourdieu to apply a field-theoretical framework to a detailed empirical... Read more
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: The Economic Governance of the School
2 From the Pedagogical Establishment to the Education-Industrial Complex
3 No Child Left Behind? Corporate Education Reform in the United States
4 The U.S. Education-Industrial Complex
5 Much Reform, Little Achievement
6 Conclusion: School and Teaching in the Trap of Neoliberal Accountability
Index
Biography
Richard Münch is Senior Professor of Social Theory and Comparative Macrosociology at Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen, Germany.
