Pluralist Publics in Market Driven Education: Towards More Democracy in Educational Reform eBook

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Pluralist Publics in Market Driven Education
Towards More Democracy in Educational Reform
Pluralist Publics in Market Driven Education opens a conversation on the nature of the public in education systems weary from market driven educational reform. Ruth Boyask observes the characteristic of publicness within contemporary education settings, a characteristic defined by tools from public sphere and democratic education theory. Boyask’s investigations of publicness in educational sites are founded in conceptualising public education as pluralist, unbounded and conditional. These concepts of the public are important for ongoing and future debate on public education. The settings Boyask examines are different in structure, function and location yet each demonstrates the push and pull between market relations (including competition, efficiency and productivity) and the desire for social equality and democracy in education. Examples of educational settings are drawn broadly from an Anglo-American imaginary that has taken hold in educational systems transnationally, with detailed observation from three research studies of education policy enactment in England. The research studies (including research on curriculum reform in a private democratic school, privatisation of regional educational services and governance in English private schools) provide contexts for examining public accountability, public service and the public good as they relate to a reconceptualised public education. Boyask’s argument is that by opening a conversation about the nature of the public within these sites we bring them into the spheres of a pluralist public education. They become open to public scrutiny and through their debate arise new ideas for challenging market-driven restrictions to contemporary public education.

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Pluralist Publics in Market Driven Education: Towards More Democracy in Educational Reform 1st Edition is written by Ruth Boyask and published by Bloomsbury Academic. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Pluralist Publics in Market Driven Education are 9781350054516, 1350054518 and the print ISBNs are 9781350054509, 135005450X. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9781350193130.