Educational Partnerships and the State : The Paradoxes of Governing Schools, Children, and Families

by Franklin, Barry M.; Popkewitz, Thomas; Bloch, Marianne N.

• ISBN13: 9781403961297
• ISBN10: 1403961298
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-19
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Educational Partnerships and the State is a compelling collection of essays by an international group of scholars that provides a critical exploration of the role of partnerships in contemporary educational reform.Their focus is on the expanding role that collaboration between the public and private sector has come to play in the governing of schools, children, and families in response to an array of worldwide economic and social changes.The contributors to this volume highlight the new relationship between civil society and the state through partnerships and what that linkage has come to mean for an array of educational issues including academic achievement, school governance, school parent-relationships, teacher education, the construction of family and community involvement, and the discourses of reform as practices that order participation and action.

Author Biography

Barry M. Franklin is Professor and Chair of the Department of Secondary Education at Utah State University.

Marianne N. Bloch is Professor in the School of Education, Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Thomas S. Popkewitz is Professor in the School of Education, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
About the Contributors	xii
Introduction: Educational Partnerships: An Introductory Framework	1	(26)
Barry M. Franklin, Marianne N. Bloch, and Thomas S. Popkewitz
PART I PARTNERSHIPS AND CHANGING PATTERNS OF GOVERNING
Chapter 1 Partnerships, the Social Pact and Changing Systems of Reason in a Comparative Perspective	27	(28)
Thomas S. Popkewitz
Chapter 2 Partnership as a Floating and Empty Signifier within Educational Policies: The Mexican Case	55	(28)
R. Buenfil Burgos
PART II BETWEEN THE STATE, CIVIL SOCIETY, AND EDUCATION
Chapter 3 Partnerships in a "Cold Climate": The Case of Britain	83	(26)
Barry M. Franklin and Gary McCulloch
Chapter 4 Education Action Zones: Model Partnerships?	109	(28)
Marey Dickson, Sharon Gewirtz, David Halpin, Sally Power, and Geoff Whitty
Chapter 5 Partnerships: The Community Context in Miami	137	(34)
M. Yvette Baber and Kathryn M. Borman with Jennifer Avery and Edgar Amador
PART III SCHOOL REFORM AND PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
Chapter 6 The Public-Private Nexus in Education	171	(16)
Henry M. Levin
Chapter 7 Governance and Accountability in the Michigan Partnership for New Education: Reconstructing Democratic Participation	187	(26)
Lynn Fendler
PART IV GOVERNING AS A PROBLEM OF INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION
Chapter 8 Partnerships and Parents: Issues of Sex and Gender in Policy and Practice	213	(24)
Miriam E. David
Chapter 9 Partnering to Serve and Save the Child with Potential: Reexamining Salvation Narratives within One University-School-Community "Service Learning" Project	237	(30)
Marianne N. Bloch, I-Fang Lee, and Ruth L. Peach
Index	267