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Individualism and community : education and social policy in the postmodern condition / Michael Peters and James Marshall.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peters, Michael (Michael A.), 1948-
- Series:
- New prospects series ; 4.
- New prospects series ; 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--Social aspects--New Zealand.
- Education.
- Education--Political aspects--New Zealand.
- Postmodernism and education--New Zealand.
- Postmodernism and education.
- Individualism--New Zealand.
- Individualism.
- Communitarianism--New Zealand.
- Communitarianism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 237 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Washington, D.C. : Falmer Press, 1996.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Examining, in the widest sense, the changes in political philosophy that have occurred in Western capitalist states since the early 1980's, this book focuses on the introduction of neo-liberal principles in the combined area of social and education
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; List of Figures; Introduction: The Crisis of the Welfare State in the Postmodern Condition; Social Policy and the Move to Community; Democracy and Community-based Social Policy; Welfare and the Future of Community: The New Zealand Experiment; The New Right Reforms of Education; The Politics of Choice: Public Choice Theory and the Autonomous Chooser; Children of Rogernomics: The New Right, Individualism and the Culture of Narcissism; From Education to Evaluation: The Ideal Learning Community
- Educational Policy Analysis and the Politics of Interpretation Postmodernism: The Critique of Reason and the Rise of the New Social Movements; Beyond the Philosophy of the Subject: Liberalism, Education and the Critique of Individualism; Individualism and Community: Education and the Politics of Difference; Conclusion: Critical Social Policy in the Postmodern Condition; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-233) and index.
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-71794-X
- 1-280-54365-5
- 0-203-45385-9
- 9780203453858
- OCLC:
- 647377472
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