Schooling in Western Europe The New Order and its Adversaries [Hardcover]

Schooling in Europe is being transformed by a new policy orthodoxy affecting all aspects of the school. Privatization, decentralization, and business focused curriculum reform are all on the rise. The authors consider the impact and conflict of such changes on schooling in England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.An Emerging Order The Europeanisation of Schooling? System Change: Local Autonomy and the Evaluative State Privatisation: From the Margins to the Centre Inequality Remade Teaching and Learning - the Terms of Modernisation Symbolic Worlds Human Resources: Students The Agency of Teachers Unconcluded References Index

'...providing a comprehensive and coherent overview of recent policy developments in education and their impacts across Europe...The text is both informative...and illuminating in its synthesis of the different elements of the neo-liberal re-ordering of schooling'. - Jenny Ozga, Journal of Education Policy

KEN JONES is Professor of Education at Keele University, UK.

CHOMIN CUNCHILLOS contributes on behalf of members of The Colectivo Baltasar Graci?n publish the Spanish e-journal, Crisis, Spain.
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RICHARD HATCHER?is Director of Research in the Faculty of Education, University of Central England, Birmingham, UK.

NICO HIRTT is a?Teacher and activist in the Appel pour une ?cole d?mocratique in Belgium.

ROSALIND INNES?is a?Lettore in English at the Universit? degli Studi della Basilicata, Italy.

SAMY JOHSUA?is a?Professeur de sciences de l'?ducation at the University of Aix-Marseille, Spain.

J?RGEN KLAUSENITZER?is?Educational consultant based in Frankfurt am Rhein, Germany.