Cover Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Reading Education Policy in the Global Era -- Reading education policy -- Theories of globalization -- The nation-state in the new global order -- Globalization, liberalism and neo-liberalism -- The context for education policy -- 2 The Post-structuralism of Foucault -- Foucault's critique of Marxism -- Foucaults epistemology: power-knowledge -- Discourse -- Foucault and the state -- Governmentality -- Pastoral power -- Raison d'état and Polizei -- Liberal reason -- Disciplinary power and 'bio-power' -- Textualism -- The postmodern turn -- The return of the political -- 3 Critical Policy Analysis: A Foucauldian Approach -- Foucault's idea of critique -- The influence of Nietzsche -- The objects of Foucauldian critique -- Foucauldian methodology: archaeology and genealogy -- Foucault's departure from structuralism -- Foucault's materialism -- Foucault and critical policy analysis -- 4 Policy as Text and Policy as Discourse: A Framework for Analysis -- Linguistic idealism in the interpretation of policy texts -- The socio-linguistics of Saussure -- Theories of discourse -- Foucault and the discourses of education -- A framework for discourse analysis -- Aims of discourse analysis -- Policy discourse and social structure -- 5 Classical Liberalism -- Liberalism's common elements -- The individual and human nature -- The historical development of liberal discourse -- Property rights in Hobbes and Locke -- Liberalism as a dominant discourse -- Classical economic liberalism -- Adam Smith -- Self-interest -- The contradictions of liberalism -- Human nature and the possessive individualism thesis -- Hume and possessive individualism -- Liberalism, individualism and education -- 6 Social Democratic Liberalism -- The emergence of the welfare state in Britain.

Precursors to the welfare state: Green and Hobhouse -- Twentieth-century welfarism -- The Keynesian welfare state consensus -- The 'historic compromise' -- The development of the welfare state in New Zealand -- 7 The Ascendancy of Neoliberalism -- The 'new right' -- Defining neoliberalism -- The doctrine of monetarism -- Austrian and Chicago economics -- Human Capital Theory -- 8 Neoliberal Theories of Institutional Restructuring -- Public Choice Theory -- Agency Theory -- Transaction Cost Economics -- Libertarian political philosophy -- Foucault's analysis of neoliberalism -- Neoliberalism as a mode of control -- 9 Markets, Professionalism, Trust -- Educational restructuring in England -- Educational restructuring in New Zealand -- Similarities and differences -- Markets and the state -- Markets and individual freedom -- Negative and positive liberty -- The de-professionalization of education -- Competition and marketization: the case of higher education -- Reconstituting professional work -- The rebirth of managerialism -- The culture of distrust -- Trust and professional accountability -- 10 Discourses of Choice, Inequality and Social Diversity -- Choice in the 1990s -- Choice and the 'third way' -- The rationale for school choice -- School choice and inequality -- The limits of choice -- Social selection and the 'third way' -- Discourses of diversity and devolution -- The necessity of state control -- Contrary directions in the 'third way' -- 11 Democracy, Citizenship and the 'Thin' Community -- Conflicting ethical frameworks: utilitarianism and social justice -- Rawls and his communitarian critics -- Communitarianism as the basis of social democracy -- Forms of communitarianism -- Towards a 'thin' communitarianism -- Community, liberty and justice -- Communitarianism and educational choice policies -- The arguments for public schooling restated.

12 Globalization, Democracy and Education -- The failure of neoliberalism -- Rebirth of the welfare state -- Revising the globalization thesis -- Cosmopolitan democracy -- Democracy, survival and international relations -- Democracy, multiculturalism and justice -- Deepening democracy through education -- Deliberation -- Contestation -- The rise of the education state: educating the democratic capabilities -- Bibliography -- Index.