Individualism And Community : Education And Social Policy In The Postmodern Condition.
Title:
Individualism And Community : Education And Social Policy In The Postmodern Condition.
Author:
Peters, Michael.
ISBN:
9780203453858
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (248 pages)
Series:
New Prospects ; v.4
New Prospects
Contents:
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 -- Educational Policy Analysis and the Politics of Interpretation -- Postmodernism: The Critique of Reason and the Rise of the New Social Movements -- Beyond the Philosophy of the Subject: Liberalism, Education and the Critique of Individualism -- Individualism and Community: Education and the Politics of Difference -- Conclusion: Critical Social Policy in the Postmodern Condition -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
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 policy. New Zealand presents a paradigm example of the neo-liberal shift in political philosophy. From constituting the social laboratory of the Western world in the 1930s in terms of social welfare provision, New Zealand has become the neo-liberal experiment of the fully marketised society in the 1990s. Against the theoretical background of educational theory and practice, this book examines neo-liberalism and its critiques as responses to the so-called crisis of the welfare state and argues for a reformulated critical social policy in the postmodern condition. The conclusions about social policy drawn by the authors can be generalized to similar situations in other Western capitalist countries.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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