The Coalition government's programme for education is a fundamental
challenge to the idea of social justice. It has provoked widespread
opposition. A wave of student militancy has swept through the
universities. Local campaigns against academies and free schools
have mobilised parents and teachers. This is the emerging and
contested terrain which this book explores. It situates it in a
longer timespan_-the New Labour period as well as that of the
Cameron government. The book brings together leading critics of
neoliberal education policy. Nico Hirtt outlines the European
Union's policy for the school system. Richard Hatcher examines the
Coalition's policy of increasing supply-side autonomy in the school
system through academies and free schools. Lisbeth Lundahl outlines
the characteristics and consequences of independent 'free schools'
in Sweden. Stephen Ball and Carolina Junemann uncover the role of
corporate philanthropy in the reform of state education. Pat Mahony
and Ian Hextall report on their research in progress into Labour's
Building Schools for the Future programme. Pat Thomson explores the
dimension of the local, contrasting Labour's rhetoric of local
empowerment with the reality of centralised governance and the
threat to the existence of local authorities posed by the
Coalition. Alasdair Smith provides an account of the anti-academies
movement. Martin Allen and Patrick Ainley focus on upper secondary
schooling and the collapsing youth labour market. Jacky Brine
analyses the role of the EU in the construction of a welfare to
work discourse, adopted by Labour and extended by the Coalition.
Kevin Courtney reflects on the torrent of policy innovation which
teachers have experienced for more than twenty years, and the place
that they might occupy within a broad trade union opposition. Joyce
Canaan explores the possibilities of the English student movement.
Ken Jones poses the question that will dominate the remainder of
the Coalition government's period of office: will the experience of
unprecedented cuts in public services give rise to effective
opposition and resistance?
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