Education Policy & Politics

This study focuses on the formal education system in Argentina between 1946 and 1962. It analyzes the link between politics and education against the backdrop of changing social conditions in Argentina under the regimes of Peron, Lonardi and Aramburu, and Frondizi...

This study focuses on the formal education system in Argentina between 1946 and 1962. It analyzes the link between politics and education against the backdrop of changing social conditions in Argentina under the regimes of Peron, Lonardi and Aramburu, and Frondizi...

Based on interviews with key actors in the policy-making process, this book maps the changes in education policy and policy making in the Thatcherite decade. The focus of the book is the 1988 Education Reform Act, its origins, purposes and effects, and it looks behind the scenes at the priorities of..

In Politics, Policies and Pedagogies in Education, Bob Lingard provides critical sociological engagement with the politics of education. The focus is education policy and the impact of globalization, including epistemological and methodological issues necessary for researching education policy today..

Using feminist post-structuralist and Foucauldian frameworks this book is a first in its explicit exploration and critique of how educational discourses have directly contributed to postfeminist notions about female power and success...

Using feminist post-structuralist and Foucauldian frameworks this book is a first in its explicit exploration and critique of how educational discourses have directly contributed to postfeminist notions about female power and success...

There is a mutual dependence between poverty and academic achievement, creative pedagogies for low-income pupils, school models that "beat the odds," and the resiliency of low-income families dedicated to the academic success of their children. This book examines the connection between poverty and l..

Privatization and the Education of Marginalized Children examines the issue of markets in education as they shape educational opportunities for disadvantaged children—for better or worse—in countries around the globe...

Professional Responsibility and Professionalism advances our approaches to professional responsibility from individual-centred, virtue-based prescriptions towards understanding and responding effectively to the multi-faceted challenges encountered today by professionals working in dynamic complexity..

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Using case studies from the full range of educational institutions, this book, originally published in 1994, provides an analytical overview of the quality debate in British education, illuminating the evolution of one of the most prevalent and forceful cultural phenomena in contemporary education a..