The Retreat from Public Education Global and Israeli Perspectives /

• Main Author: Ichilov, Orit (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Subjects: Education.; Educational sociology.; Sociology.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Sociology of Education.; Sociology, general.

This book provides a critical analysis of the implementation of market ideology and practices in education. The social and educational consequences of the most characteristic market-practices, such as parental choice and the involvement in schools of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, are...

Table of Contents:

• Paving the Road for Market Reforms in Education
• Education: Between Social Entitlement and the Discourse of Rights
• Visions of the Purposes of Education: Democracy, Human Development, and the Market-Managerial Approach
• The Educational and Social Consequences of Markets in Education
• The Building of Public Education in Israel
• The Retreat from State Education
• The Future of Public Education.