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Author Archer, Robert, 1972- author.

Title Education Policy and Realist Social Theory : Primary Teachers, Child-Centred Philosophy and the New Managerialism.

Imprint New York : Routledge, April 2002 ; Florence : Taylor & Francis Group [distributor]

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Description 1 online resource (256 pages).
Series Studies in Critical Realism ; vol. 3
Studies in Critical Realism ; vol. 3.
Audience Trade Routledge.
Summary Annotation 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.<br />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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Chapter Introduction -- part Part I Establishing the theoretical framework -- chapter 1 Structure, agency and educational change -- Morphogenesis and the need for analytical dualism -- chapter Concluding remarks -- chapter 2 Culture, organisation theory and the new managerialism -- chapter Culture and managerialism -- part PART II Child-centred philosophy, new managerialism and the English education system -- A morphogenetic account -- chapter 3 Socio-cultural conditioning -- Plowden, the philosophers and teacher training -- chapter 4 Socio-cultural interaction -- Tyndale, Ruskin and the 'Black Paper' years -- chapter Tyndale, the media and progressivism -- chapter The effects of Tyndale: Callaghan's Ruskin speech and the failure of agency -- chapter 5 Socio-cultural elaboration -- The 1988 Education Reform Act and the new managerialism -- chapter Taylorism and organisational culture -- part PART III At the managerial chalk face: Southside and Westside -- chapter Preface to Part III -- chapter 6 Southside -- New Managerialism to the rescue -- chapter 7 Westside: -- 'You can run, but you can't hide!' -- part Part IV Concluding remarks -- chapter 8 What about the children? -- Some concluding remarks -- chapter Notes -- chapter 4 Chapter 4 -- chapter 6 Chapter 6.
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Subject Educational sociology -- Europe.
Education, Elementary -- Social aspects -- Europe.
Elementary school teachers -- Europe.
Education, Elementary -- Europe -- Philosophy.
Education, Elementary -- Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst00902983
Education, Elementary -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00902991
Educational sociology. (OCoLC)fst00903596
Elementary school teachers. (OCoLC)fst00907928
Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
ISBN 0415268397 (Trade Cloth)
9780415268394
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