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Challenging the System? - A Dramatic Tale of Neoliberal Reform in an Australian High School (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R2,679
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Challenging the System? - A Dramatic Tale of Neoliberal Reform in an Australian High School (Hardcover, New): Martin Forsey

Challenging the System? - A Dramatic Tale of Neoliberal Reform in an Australian High School (Hardcover, New)

Martin Forsey

Series: Education Policy in Practice: Critical Cultural Studies

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Based on extended, intensive fieldwork in an Australian high school, Challenging the System illuminates issues faced on a daily basis by teachers and educational administrators in many parts of the world. Forsey highlights the tensions arising between neo-liberal emphasis on individual school communities as the engine for competitive excellence in education, and the need for those responsible for running public education to maintain some degree of equity across the whole system. He shows that reforms based purely on market forces are not only undesirable, they are imposible to achieve. Governments do not want to lose control of highly significant cultural and political

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Imprint: American Society of Civil Engineers
Country of origin: United States
Series: Education Policy in Practice: Critical Cultural Studies
Release date: November 2006
First published: November 2006
Authors: Martin Forsey
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-1-59311-579-1
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Social classes > General
Books > Social sciences > Education > Schools > Secondary schools > General
LSN: 1-59311-579-2
Barcode: 9781593115791

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