Global Education Inc.: New Policy Networks and the Neoliberal Imaginary
Do private and philanthropic solutions to the problems of education signal the end of state education in itswelfare form?Education policy is being reformed and re-worked on a global scale. Policies are flowing and converging to produce a singular vision ofbest practice based on the methods and tenets of theneo-liberal imaginary. Philanthro
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Global Education Inc.: New Policy Networks and the Neoliberal Imaginary
Do private and philanthropic solutions to the problems of education signal the end of state education in itswelfare form?Education policy is being reformed and re-worked on a global scale. Policies are flowing and converging to produce a singular vision ofbest practice based on the methods and tenets of theneo-liberal imaginary. Philanthro
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Global Education Inc.: New Policy Networks and the Neoliberal Imaginary

Global Education Inc.: New Policy Networks and the Neoliberal Imaginary

by Stephen J. Ball
Global Education Inc.: New Policy Networks and the Neoliberal Imaginary

Global Education Inc.: New Policy Networks and the Neoliberal Imaginary

by Stephen J. Ball

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Overview

Do private and philanthropic solutions to the problems of education signal the end of state education in itswelfare form?Education policy is being reformed and re-worked on a global scale. Policies are flowing and converging to produce a singular vision ofbest practice based on the methods and tenets of theneo-liberal imaginary. Philanthro

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781136632839
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 03/01/2012
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 184
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Stephen J. Ball is Karl Mannheim Professor of Sociology of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK.

Table of Contents

List of figures and boxes, Acknowledgements, Foreword: (not) reading this book, 1. Networks, neo-liberalism and policy mobilities, 2. Doing neo-liberalism – markets and states, and friends with money, 3. Transnational advocacy networks and policy entrepreneurship: Indiana Jones, business and schooling of the poor, 4. ‘New’ philanthropy, social capitalism and education policy, 5. Policy as profit: selling and exporting policy, 6. Education as big business, 7. Money, meaning and policy connections, References, Index
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