Reforming Education and Changing Schools

by Bowe, Richard; Ball, Stephen J.

• ISBN13: 9780415077903
• ISBN10: 0415077907
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-08-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

List of figures
List of abbreviations
Preface
Introduction	p. 1
The policy process and the processes of policy	p. 6
Introduction	p. 6
Policy analysis and the State-control model	p. 8
Policy research and the analysis of policy texts	p. 10
The National Curriculum as text and the political context	p. 14
Characterizing the policy process	p. 19
Education in the marketplace	p. 24
Schools as entrepreneurs	p. 28
Market dynamics and the politics of space	p. 35
The local history of education markets	p. 37
'Reading' the local market(s)	p. 39
Profit maximization or market share?	p. 45
Teachers in the marketplace	p. 50
Education, values and the market culture	p. 53
LMS (the Local Management of Schools) and the entrepreneurial school	p. 63
Introduction	p. 63
LMS and the school as an enterprise	p. 64
Local management in action	p. 68
Summary	p. 81
The National Curriculum: subject to change?	p. 83
Introduction	p. 83
Interpreting the texts	p. 85
Conclusion	p. 117
Special Educational Needs in a new context	p. 121
Special Educational Needs provision in the 1990s	p. 122
Special Educational Needs and the National Curriculum	p. 124
The context of practice: the National Curriculum	p. 127
The context of practice: LMS and the LEAs	p. 130
Conclusion	p. 138
Changing Management and the management of change!	p. 140
'New management', new concerns and new dilemmas	p. 143
Managing what?	p. 159
Conclusion	p. 179
References	p. 182
Index	p. 188
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