Research Catalog

Title

The managerial school : post-welfarism and social justice in education / Sharon Gewirtz.

Author

Gewirtz, Sharon, 1964-

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

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Details

Description

xvii, 204 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"The relationship between welfare and the state has undergone a sustained process of reconfiguration over the past two decades and managerialism has played a key role in this process. In education, parents are now seen as consumers and schools as small businesses, their income dependent on their success in attracting customers within competitive local markets. At the same time, management practices borrowed from business - such as target setting and performance monitoring - now play a key role in regulating schools." "What kinds of schools are the reforms producing? What impact are they having on school culture and values? What are the social justice implications of applying a business model to the provision of schooling?" "In The Managerial School, Sharon Gewirtz draws on in-depth interviews with teachers in a range of secondary schools and close observation of school practices to answer these questions. Through a comparison of Conservative and New Labour policies, she argues that New Labour's 'third way' for education is a contradictory mix of neo-liberal, authoritarian and humanistic strands that is not in any real sense a new educational settlement." "This empirically based account of over a decade of education reform offers a unique insight into the effects of managerialism on school and a hard-hitting analysis of the inherent tensions in a system that undoubtedly perpetrates social injustice."--Jacket.

Series Statement

The state of welfare

Uniform Title

State of welfare.

Subject

• School management and organization > Great Britain
• Educational change > Great Britain
• Educational change
• School management and organization
• Social policy
• Bildungswesen
• Sozialpolitik
• Onderwijsvernieuwing
• Onderwijsbeleid
• Marktmechanisme
• Onderwijsmanagement
• Organisatiekunde
• Skoladministration
• Utbildningsreformer
• Administration of schools
• Educational innovations > Great Britain
• Great Britain > Social policy
• Great Britain
• Großbritannien

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The changing politics of education: from welfarism to post-welfarism -- Post-welfarism and the reconstruction of English schooling -- Learning to lead: headteachers and the new managerialism -- Ethics and ethos: conflicting values in the managerial school -- Stress in the staffroom: the reconstruction of teachers' work -- Can all schools be successful? -- Assessing post-welfarism in education -- The post-welfarist settlement in education: consequences and contradiction -- Post-welfarist schooling: a social justice audit -- Towards a new educational settlement? New Labour's 'third way' for education.

ISBN

• 0415224853
• 9780415224857
• 0415224861
• 9780415224864

LCCN

2001019454

OCLC

• ocm46401987
• 46401987
• SCSB-1265104

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library