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Work and identity in the primary school : a post-Fordist analysis / Ian Menter ... [et al.].

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Work and identity in the primary school : a post-Fordist analysis / Ian Menter ... [et al.].
Publication
Buckingham [England] ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 1997.

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Additional Authors
Menter, Ian, 1949-
Description
151 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
This book offers the first substantial, research-based treatment of the impact of marketization on primary schools. There is a particular focus on shifts in management culture associated with marketization, and the consequences of such shifts for heads, teachers and other school staff. The changing patterns of control and autonomy in the primary school have had significant effects on the identities of schoolworkers. The book, therefore, makes an important contribution to an understanding of markets in education, in a hitherto neglected sector of provision, and breaks new ground in its pursuit of connections between market discourses and emergent managerialism. It thus offers a contribution to the understanding of primary schools as workplaces and to their changing work cultures, to the management of primary schools, and to education policy studies.
Subject
  • Education, Elementary > Great Britain > Administration
  • Education, Elementary > Economic aspects > Great Britain
  • Elementary school teachers > Great Britain
  • Teacher-administrator relationships > Great Britain
  • Postmodernism and education > Great Britain
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-145) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. Researching the primary market place -- 2. Markets and policy -- 3. The education market in an English county town -- 4. Markets, management and control in the primary school -- 5. Two schools: in-depth case studies -- 6. Themes in the control of work -- 7. Changes in schoolwork -- 8. Restructuring work in education and beyond -- 9. Conclusion.
ISBN
  • 0335197248 (hb)
  • 033519723X (pb)
LCCN
^^^96019874^
OCLC
  • 34705010
  • SCSB-12801580
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library