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The new democratic professional in education : confronting markets, metrics, and managerialism / Gary Anderson, Michael Ian Cohen.
Van Pelt Library LB1775.2 .A55 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anderson, Gary L., 1948- author.
- Cohen, Michael Ian, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teachers--Professional relationships--United States.
- Teachers.
- Teachers--Professional relationships.
- United States.
- Public schools--United States.
- Public schools.
- Democracy and education--United States.
- Democracy and education.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 177 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Teachers College Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- This accessible book examines two waves of business influence that created models of schooling that are out of touch with the experiences of students, the professional expertise of teachers, and the needs and interests of local communities. The book also describes the forms of resistance that are currently emerging to fight for the democratic mission of a public education.
- Contents:
- 1 Privatizing Professionals: Teaching and Leading under New Public Management p. 7
- What's Behind the Attack on the Public Sector and the Public-Sector Professional? p. 10
- Are Teaching and Administration Professions? p. 12
- Professional Work in an Audit Culture p. 14
- New Capitalism and the New Corporate Workplace p. 17
- New Governance and New Public Management p. 21
- New Public Management and the Activist State p. 23
- Toward a New Democratic Professional in Education p. 24
- 2 The Historical and Political Construction of the New Professional p. 27
- How Did We Get Here? p. 28
- Early Business-Inspired Reforms p. 29
- Professionalism in the Bureaucracy p. 32
- Bureaucracy Versus Community p. 42
- Early Business Policy Players p. 45
- 3 The Second Wave of Business Influence and the Appeal of New Managerialism p. 51
- The Failure of New Public Management Reforms in Education p. 53
- Corporations, Managerialism, and the Role of Business Schools p. 55
- New Managerialism and the Failure of the American Business Model p. 58
- A Brief History of the American Corporation p. 61
- The Appeal of New Public Management: Political Spectacle, Cross-sector Borrowing, and Cognitive Framing p. 63
- 4 New Policy Actors and Networks Design the New Teacher and Leader p. 69
- Strange Bedfellows: Who Supports New Public Management Reforms? p. 71
- New Policy Actors: The Emergence of Issue Networks p. 77
- The Growing Role of Privatization, Contracting, and "Edubusinesses" p. 83
- Training the New Education Professional p. 85
- 5 Responding to NPM and New Professionalism p. 89
- How New Public Management and New Professionalism Became the New Normal p. 91
- Resisting New Public Management and New Professionalism p. 96
- From Resistance to Democratic Professionalism p. 108
- 6 The New Democratic Professional: Building New Alliances for Change p. 111
- Characteristics of a New Democratic Professional p. 114
- Building on Existing Democratic Practices and Policies p. 123
- Building Counter-Networks: New Alliances for Change p. 137.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780807759424
- 0807759422
- 9780807759431
- 0807759430
- OCLC:
- 1042077406
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