Education Policy and Realist Social Theory: Primary Teachers, Child-Centred Philosophy and the New Managerialism (Routledge Studies in Critical Realism)

✍ Scribed by Robert Wilmott

• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 269
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In Europe welfare state provision has been subjected to 'market forces'. Over the last two decades, the framework of economic competitiveness has become the defining aim of education, to be achieved by new managerialist techniques and mechanisms. This book thoughtfully and persuasively argues against this new vision of education, and offers a different, more useful potential approach.This in-depth major study will be of great interest to researchers in the sociology of education, education policy, social theory, organization and management studies, and also to professionals concerned about the deleterious impact of current education policy on children's learning and welfare.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
Establishing the theoretical framework......Page 18
Structure, agency and educational change: Morphogenesis and the need for analytical dualism......Page 20
Culture, organisation theory and the new managerialism......Page 53
Child-centred philosophy, new managerialism and the English education system: A morphogenetic account......Page 90
Socio-cultural conditioning: Plowden, the philosophers and teacher training......Page 92
Socio-cultural interaction: Tyndale, Ruskin and the 'Black Paper' years......Page 116
Socio-cultural elaboration: The 1988 Education Reform Act and the new managerialism......Page 132
At the managerial chalk face: Southside and Westside......Page 160
Preface to Part III......Page 162
Southside: New Managerialism to the rescue......Page 177
Westside: 'You can run, but you can't hide!'......Page 203
Concluding remarks......Page 232
What about the children? Some concluding remarks......Page 234
Notes......Page 240
References......Page 252
Index......Page 260