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Consultants and Consultancy: the Case of Education (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
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Consultants and Consultancy: the Case of Education (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Educational Governance Research, 4
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This book is a comprehensive study into and about consultants doing
consultancy, and having influence in ways that generate concerns
about an emerging 'consultocracy', with privileged access to
governments and public services. It presents a detailed mapping of
consultants and consultancy in education as a site of change and
modernisation in public sector service provision. It considers
consultancy at a macro-level of globalised policy, at a meso-level
of national government policy, and at a micro level with vivid
descriptions and analyses of consultants at work. The rapid rise of
'edubusinesses', combined with the restructuring of public services
in western style democracies, has generated new types of 'knowledge
actors' within education policy. Three main developments that have
led to this change are: the entry of education policy and service
consultants from within major companies into the public education
market place; the emergence of 'celebrity' entrepreneurial actors
and private businesses who make interventions into Universities and
schools; and the rapid growth of small businesses based on
individuals who have relocated their work from the public to the
private sector. Such knowledge actors and the complexities they
bring to public education are as yet under described and largely
un-theorized. Based on current research and drawing upon a range of
theoretical tools, this book fills the gap. Gunter and Mills
provide an invaluable contribution to scholarship on the neoliberal
restructuring of public education by mapping and analyzing the
under-examined yet central role of corporate education consultants.
Their thoughtful and thorough discussion expands our understanding
of how consultants promote and trade in the ideologies of corporate
culture. Gunter and Mills show how consultants are integral to both
knowledge making practices in schools and a radical reform agenda
for schools in the UK and around the globe. This is an accessible
and important volume for not just policy and politics scholars but
anyone concerned about defending public forms of education and
associated living at a moment when they are increasingly being
positioned for pillage by profiteers. Kenneth J. Saltman,
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA
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