1st Edition

Education Policy, Neoliberalism, and Leadership Practice A Critical Analysis

By Karen Starr Copyright 2019
    190 Pages
    by Routledge

    190 Pages
    by Routledge

    Education Policy, Neoliberalism, and Leadership Practice is a foundational book describing all aspects of neoliberalism and its broad scale impact in education. Drawing on research and canvassing policy developments across a range of contexts, this book critically analyzes neoliberal education policies, the practices and outcomes they spawn, and the purposes they serve. It interrogates how education leaders perceive and interpret neoliberal influences and the dilemmas and opportunities they create, while unpacking questions of why neoliberalism is the basis for educational policy, how neoliberalism impacts on education, and what this means for the future.

    Series Introduction

    Acknowledgements

    Part 1: A rising tide lifts all boats

    Chapter 1 Introduction: The misguided impatience of education policy

    Chapter 2 Globalization, the free market and neoliberalism

    Chapter 3 Individualism

    Chapter 4 Privatization

    Chapter 5 Choice

    Chapter 6 Competition

    Chapter 7 Improvement, innovation and entrepreneurialism

    Chapter 8 Efficiency

    Chapter 9 Productivity

    Chapter 10 Performativity

    Chapter 11 Accountability

    Part 2: An ebbing tide?

    Chapter 12 Education is off course

    Chapter 13 What happened to equity?

    Chapter 14 The rise of anti-educationalism and bad faith: A changing social psyche

    Chapter 15 Education leadership in neoliberal times

    Concluding remarks Exposing education’s ‘dirty little secret’: The Emperor has no clothes

    Biography

    Karen Starr is Professor and Inaugural Chair of School Development and Leadership at Deakin University, Australia.