Overview

The idea of democratic schooling is seriously attacked by the marketisation of education. New policies of educational restructuring emphasise accountability and close links between school and industry, where schools become targets of constant evaluation and competition. This book challenges such policies through analyses of their negative consequences for social justice and democracy. It explores the effects of restructuring on life in schools and presents analyses of how social, gender and ethnic differences are dealt with in an educational environment.

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Author:   Dennis Beach ,  Elina Lahelma ,  Tuula Gordon
Publisher:   Tufnell Press
Imprint:   Tufnell Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.270kg
ISBN:  

9781872767420

ISBN 10:   1872767427
Pages:   164
Publication Date:   01 September 2003
Audience:   Adult education ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Further / Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Marketisation of democratic education: Ethnographic insights, Tuula Gordon, Elina Lahelma and Dennis Beach Part I: From policies to classrooms 1 Comparative ethnography: Fabricating the new millennium and its exclusions, Sverker Lindblad and Thomas S. Popkewitz 2 Nation space: The construction of citizenship and difference in schools, Tuula Gordon and Janet Holland 3'Strong Nordic women' in the making? Gender policies and classroom practices, Elina Lahelma and Elisabet Ohrn Part II: Construction of normality and difference 4 Constructions of an 'outsider': Contradictions and ambiguities in institutional practices Anne-Lise Arnesen 5 Representations of ethnicity: How teachers speak about ethnic minority students. Thomas Gitz-Johansen 6 Celebrating internationality: Constructions of nationality at preschool, Sirpa Lappalainen Part III: Discourses and practices 7 The politics of time in educational restructuring, Daniel Sundberg 8 Becoming a pupil, Ulla-Maija Salo 9 Mathematics goes to market, Dennis Beach 10 Changes in teacher students' knowledge by changes in technologies of freedom and control, Inger Anne Kvalbein Bibliography

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Anne-Lise Arnesen Associate Professor, Oslo University College, Norway Dennis Beach Associate Professor of Educational Sciences, Goteburg University, Sweden. Thomas Gitz-Johansen Researcher, Department of Education, Roskilde University, Denmark. Tuula Gordon Fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland. Janet Holland Professor, Faculty of Arts and Human Science, South Bank University, UK. Inger Anne Kvalbein Associate Professor, Department of Teacher Education, Oslo University College, Norway. Elina Lahelma Academy Fellow, Department of Education, University of Helsinki, Finland. Sirpa Lappalainen Researcher, Department of Education, University of Helsinki, Finland Sverker Linblad Professor, University of Uppsala, Department of Education, Sweden Elisabet Ohrn Associate Professor, Department of Education, Goteburg University, Sweden Thomas S. Popkewitz Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Ulla-Maija Salo Professor, University of Helsinki, Department of Home Economics and Craft Science, Finland. Daniel Sundberg Researcher, Department of Education, University of Vaxjo, Sweden

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