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Reforming education and changing schools : case studies in policy sociology
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- Creator
- Richard Bowe and Stephen J. Ball with Anne Gold
- Format
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- London ; New York : Routledge, 1992
- Physical Details
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- vi, 192 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780415077897, 0415077893, 9780415077903, 0415077907
- OCLC
- ocm25205369
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [182]-187) and index.
- 1. The policy process and the processes of policy. Policy analysis and the State-control model. Policy research and the analysis of policy texts. The National Curriculum as text and the political context. Characterizing the policy process -- 2. Education in the marketplace. Schools as entrepreneurs. Market dynamics and the politics of space. The local history of education markets. 'Reading' the local market(s). Profit maximization or market share? Teachers in the marketplace. Education, values and the market culture -- 3. LMS (the Local Management of Schools) and the entrepreneurial school. LMS and the school as an enterprise. Local management in action -- 4. The National Curriculum: subject to change? Interpreting the texts -- 5. Special Educational Needs in a new context. Special Educational Needs provision in the 1990s. Special Educational Needs and the National Curriculum. The context of practice: the National Curriculum. The context of practice: LMS and the LEAs -- 6. Changing Management and the management of change! 'New management', new concerns and new dilemmas. Managing what?