Re-reading education policies : : a handbook studying the policy agenda of the 21st century / / edited by Maarten Simons, Mark Olssen, Michael A. Peters.

• Superior document: Educational Futures ; 32
• TeilnehmendeR: Peters, Michael, 1948-; Olssen, Mark,; Simons, Maarten,
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam ;, Boston ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Educational Futures ; 32.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

This book collects studies with a ‘critical education policy orientation’, and presents itself as a handbook of matters of public concern. The term ‘critical’ does not refer to the adoption of a particular theoretical framework or methodology, but rather it refers to a very specific ethos or way of relating to the present and the belief that the future should not be the repetition of the past. This implies a concern about what is happening in our societies today and what could or should be happening in the future. As a consequence, the contributors to the book rely on a general notion of public policy that takes on board processes, practices, and discourses at a variety of levels, in diverse governmental and non-governmental contexts, and considers the relation of policy to power, to politics and to social regulation. Following the detailed introduction that aims at picturing the landscape of studies with a ‘critical education policy orientation’, the book presents re-readings of six policy challenges; globalization, knowledge society, lifelong learning, equality/democracy/social inclusion, accountability/control/efficiency and teacher professionalism. It seeks to contextualise these in relation to issues of current global concern at the start of the 21st century. Despite the diversity of approaches, this collection of critical education policy studies shares a concern with what could be called ‘the public, and its education,’ and represents a snapshot of education policy research at a particular time.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Maarten Simons , Mark Olssen and Michael A. Peters -- Re-Reading Education Policies / Maarten Simons , Mark Olssen and Michael A. Peters -- Re-Reading Education Policies / Maarten Simons , Mark Olssen and Michael A. Peters -- Global Solutions for Global Poverty? / Xavier Bonal and Aina Tarabini -- Globalisation and the Quest for Social Justice in African Education / Leon Tikly -- Globalisation and Neoliberalism / Carlos Alberto Torres and Richard Van Heertum -- When Socialism Meets Global Capitalism / Ka Ho Mok -- Globalisation / Marek Kwiek -- Rescaling and Reconstituting Education Policy / Bob Lingard and Shaun Rawolle -- Society, Knowledge and Education / Heinz Sünker -- ‘Producing’ the Global Knowledge Economy / Susan L. Robertson -- Knowledge Economy / Terri Seddon -- The Knowledge Economy, Scholarly Work and the Gift Economy / Johannah Fahey , Jane Kenway and Elizabeth Bullen -- Knowledge Economy and Scientific Communication / Michael A. Peters -- ‘Managing’ Academic Research in Universities or CAt-Herding for Beginners / Rosemary Deem -- Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society / Kenneth Wain -- Fabricating the Lifelong Learner in an Age of Neoliberalism / Andreas Fejes -- Constructing Europe Through Constructing a European Education Space / Roger Dale -- A Politics of Spin / Katherine Nicoll -- Tantalus’ Torment / Ludwig Pongratz -- Re-Writing Education Policy / Richard Edwards -- Neoliberalism, Education, and the Rise of a Global Common Good / Mark Olssen -- Beyond the Corporate Takeover of Higher Education / Henry A. Giroux -- New Positive Discrimination Policies in BAsic and Higher Education / Agnes van Zanten -- Higher Education Policy Discourse(s) in South Africa / Yusef Waghid -- Identity, diversity and Equality in Education / Alan Cribb and Sharon Gewirtz -- Inclusion and Exclusion as Double Gestures in Policy and Education Sciences / Thomas S. Popkewitz -- ‘You Don’t Fatten the Pig by Weighting it’ / Lesley Vidovich -- Figures in the (Land) Scape / Martin Lawn and Sotiria Grek -- University Rankings, Government and Social Order / Simon Marginson -- Successful Subjectivities? / Simon Bradford and Valerie Hey -- Producing Difference / Michael W. Apple -- Education Between Accountablity and Responsibility / Gert Biesta -- Education Reform, Teacher Professionalism and the End of Authenticity / Stephen J. Ball -- Critical Professional or Branded Technician? / Mike Bottery -- Macropolitics Caught up in Micropolitics / Geert Kelchtermans -- Re-Reading the Standards Agenda / James G. Ladwig and Jennifer M. Gore -- Teacher Professionalisation as a Doubleedged Sword / Lynn Fendler -- The Politics of Professionalising Talk on Teaching / Rita Foss Lindblad and Sverker Lindblad -- Author Information / Maarten Simons , Mark Olssen and Michael A. Peters -- Author Index / Maarten Simons , Mark Olssen and Michael A. Peters -- Subject Index / Maarten Simons , Mark Olssen and Michael A. Peters.