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The Retreat from Public Education - Global and Israeli Perspectives (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009)
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The Retreat from Public Education - Global and Israeli Perspectives (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009)
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In recent decades the pendulum is swinging away from the idea and
ideals of public education, and a new ethos increasingly takes over
the shrinking public space of education. In the 1980s markets were
elevated to social and economic icons, becoming a new secular
faith. Privatizing public education became a credible policy in
many countries and there have been an increasing number of attempts
to restructure and deregulate state schooling. Global trade
agreements foster domestic and international trade in education
services treating education as a commodity to be sold and
purchased, and many countries adopt various forms of market-related
practices in education. These are not neutral, technical,
managerial changes in the production and delivery of public
education. They transform education in ways that have profound
social and edu- tional consequences. To justify the introduction of
market reforms in education public schools and educators are being
defamed and accused of a series of vices, such as inef?ciency and
laziness. We must be reminded that public education, i. e. ,
mandatory publicly ?nanced schooling, that was introduced in
Austria as early as in 1874 and spread to other countries, was
considered the most progressive movement of the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. Public schools were established to make
education univ- sally available to all children, free of charge,
and have been recognized as gateways to opportunity (Kober, 2006).
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