Neoliberalism and Public Education Finance Policy in Canada - Reframing Educational Leadership as Entrepreneurship

This book uses a multi-dimensional conceptual framework to demonstrate how neoliberal forces have been manifested through changes to K–12 public education finance policy in British Columbia, Canada between 2001 and 2015. The text offers in-depth critical policy analysis to illustrate how the public education system has been impacted by the emergence of a hybrid model of public-private funding. By examining the impacts of this neoliberalized model, in which school districts must compete for public funding and engage in for-profit activities, the book highlights emerging financial inequalities; exacerbated inequities for students; increased entrepreneurialism; closer alignment of administrators’ subjectivities with a managerial approach to educational leadership; and an illusion of local autonomy. Ultimately, the text makes powerful contributions by calling attention to detrimental processes of neoliberalization, marketization, and privatization within public education, as well as the managerialization of educational leadership. This text will benefit researchers, academics, educators, and educational leaders with an interest in the politics of education policy and finance, school district leadership, international and comparative education, and the sociology of education.

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Studies in Education, Neoliberalism, and Marxism
Release date:	September 2023
First published:	2022
Authors:	Wendy Poole • Vicheth Sen • Gerald Fallon
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Pages:	148
ISBN-13:	978-1-03-217127-2
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-03-217127-8
Barcode:	9781032171272

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