The ideology of education : the commonwealth, the market, and America's schools
"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
Print Book, English, ©2003
State University of New York Press, Albany, ©2003
xv, 196 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780791456453, 9780791456460, 0791456455, 0791456463
49977186
Ideology and education
Education and the economy
Education and equality of opportunity
Institutional structure and educational goals
Education and civic culture
Education as ideology