Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Educational Policies: The Global Context -- 2 Educational Policies: The National Context -- 3 Managerialism, Leadership and the Assault on Educational Values -- 4 Uses and Abuses of Quality: The Need for a Civic Version -- 5 The School Effectiveness Movement - Educational Research as an Agent of Policy Direction -- 6 Education as Surveillance: The Development of Instruments of Control -- 7 Fragmentation and the Loss of Meaning -- 8 Getting the Balance Right: Duty as a Core Ethic in the Life of Educators -- 9 Education and the Discourse of Civil Society -- 10 Empowering an Ecology of Change -- References and bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.