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The Rich World and the Impoverishment of Education: Diminishing Democracy, Equity and Workers' Rights

Editor: Dave Hill
By: Hill Dave
Retail Price: $135.00
Booktopia Price $121.50
ISBN: 9780415957755
Format: Hardcover
Published: October 2008

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This book critically identifies and evaluates neoliberal policy and its impacts on schooling/ education in the Rich World. Chapters ask What Neoliberal Changes have taken place (e.g. privatisation, vouchers, marketisation, commercialization, school fees, new brutalist public managerialism, and the the assault on the comprehensive / common school principle and on democratic control of schools) and identify neoliberal Drivers or Levers - national / transnational corporations, think tanks, pressure groups, state power, ideologies/ discourses. The contributors examine the impacts on equality, equal opportunities and access (social class; race/ ethnic/ linguistic groups; gender, rural/urban differentiation); democracy/ critical thinking; and the pay and conditions of education workers in England and Wales, USA, Australia, Canada, Finland, Portugal, Greece, Singapore and Japan.

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