The Ideology of Education: The Commonwealth, the Market, and America's SchoolsState University of New York Press, 1. 2. 2012 - Počet stran: 212 Advocates of market-based education reforms (including such policies as choice, charters, vouchers, and outright privatization) argue that they represent ready solutions to clearly defined problems. Critics of market models, on the other hand, argue that these reforms misperceive the purposes of public education and threaten its democratic ethos. This book explores both the promises and pitfalls of market forces—their potential to improve the quality of public education and their compatibility with its republican justifications. Smith argues that although market models of education are not without utilitarian merit, their potential to alter the social-democratic purposes of education is seriously underestimated. He supports this claim with a series of sophisticated analyses of the key assumptions underlying these models, and by examining the normative elements of theory and methodology that can—and often do—skew empirical policy analysis toward market preferences. He concludes that market reforms are not just a ready means to effectively address the problems of public schooling but rather represent a clear attempt to ideologically redefine its ends. |
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Strana xi
... values and the political issue at hand are motivating forces strong enough to shape the direction of an analysis ... democratic values, in theory and method the policy sciences have good reasons to secure positivist foundations. The ...
... values and the political issue at hand are motivating forces strong enough to shape the direction of an analysis ... democratic values, in theory and method the policy sciences have good reasons to secure positivist foundations. The ...
Strana xiii
... values do not intrude upon our work or, even worse, to muddle advocacy with inference. I believe those of us who ... democratic ethos? This page intentionally left blank. Acknowledgments A book is rarely xiii Preface.
... values do not intrude upon our work or, even worse, to muddle advocacy with inference. I believe those of us who ... democratic ethos? This page intentionally left blank. Acknowledgments A book is rarely xiii Preface.
Strana 1
... value systems, public education and the market are not particularly compatible ... values that justify its existence (Engel 2000, Henig 1994, Cookson 1994 ... democratic metaphor that “leads to a belief ublic education and the market ...
... value systems, public education and the market are not particularly compatible ... values that justify its existence (Engel 2000, Henig 1994, Cookson 1994 ... democratic metaphor that “leads to a belief ublic education and the market ...
Strana 2
... value-system metaphors. They see public schools as institutional manifestations of democratic values, a view anchored in the legal origins of public education: state constitutions authorize the existence of public schools in the United ...
... value-system metaphors. They see public schools as institutional manifestations of democratic values, a view anchored in the legal origins of public education: state constitutions authorize the existence of public schools in the United ...
Strana 3
... democratic values with its own? This is a question with important implications for the purpose and operation of mass systems for public education, and raises critical issues for policy scholars struggling to separate analytical ...
... democratic values with its own? This is a question with important implications for the purpose and operation of mass systems for public education, and raises critical issues for policy scholars struggling to separate analytical ...
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2 Education and the Economy | 19 |
3 Education and Equality of Opportunity | 47 |
4 Institutional Structure and Educational Goals | 75 |
5 Education and Civic Culture | 101 |
6 Education as Ideology | 127 |
Notes | 151 |
Methodological Appendix | 157 |
References | 171 |
Index | 191 |
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