education and social policy in the postmodern condition /
First Statement of Responsibility
Michael Peters and James Marshall.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Washington, D.C. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Falmer Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1996.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (ix, 237 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations
SERIES
Series Title
New prospects series ;
Volume Designation
4
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-233) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; List of Figures; Introduction: The Crisis of the Welfare State in the Postmodern Condition; Social Policy and the Move to Community; Democracy and Community-based Social Policy; Welfare and the Future of Community: The New Zealand Experiment; The New Right Reforms of Education; The Politics of Choice: Public Choice Theory and the Autonomous Chooser; Children of Rogernomics: The New Right, Individualism and the Culture of Narcissism; From Education to Evaluation: The Ideal Learning Community.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Examining, in the widest sense, the changes in political philosophy that have occurred in Western capitalist states since the early 1980s, this book focuses on the introduction of neo-liberal principles in the combined area of social and education.