1st Edition

The Managerial School Post-welfarism and Social Justice in Education

By Sharon Gewirtz Copyright 2002
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

The relationship between welfare and the state has undergone a sustained process of reconfiguration over the past two decades and managerialism has played a key role in this process. In education, parents are now seen as consumers and schools as small businesses, their income dependent on their success in attracting customers within competitive local 'markets'. At the same time, management... Read more
Introduction Part One: Post-Welfarism and the Reconstruction of English Schooling 1. The Emergence of the Managerial School 2. Shifting Discourses of School Headship 3. Values and Ethics in the Managerial School 4. The Reconstruction of Teachers' Work 5. Can All Schools be Successful? An Exploration of the Determinants of School 'Success' Part Two: Social Justice and the Rise of New Labour 6. Conceptualising Social Justice in an Age of Difference 7. Post-Welfareist Schooling: A Social Justice Audit 8. New Labour's 'Third Way' and the Politics of Justice in Education: The Case of 'Action Zones'

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Gewirtz, Sharon