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The Retreat from Public Education

Global and Israeli Perspectives

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  1. Orit Ichilov
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  • Timely and highly salient topic
  • Unique case study on the role of public schooling in the process of nation building
  • Fully examines the social and educational consequences of privatization
  • Goes beyond the traditional evaluation of markets by the criteria of efficiency and utility
  • Relevant to educational policy studies as well as to citizenship studies

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  2. Paving the Road for Market Reforms in Education

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    Pages 1-9

  3. Education: Between Social Entitlement and the Discourse of Rights

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    Pages 11-24

  4. Visions of the Purposes of Education: Democracy, Human Development, and the Market-Managerial Approach

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    Pages 25-38

  5. The Educational and Social Consequences of Markets in Education

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    Pages 39-54

  6. The Building of Public Education in Israel

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    Pages 55-74

  7. The Retreat from State Education

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    Pages 75-96

  8. The Future of Public Education

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    Pages 97-104

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 105-128
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In recent decades the pendulum is swinging away from the idea and ideals of public education, and a new ethos increasingly takes over the shrinking public space of education. In the 1980s markets were elevated to social and economic icons, becoming a new secular faith. Privatizing public education became a credible policy in many countries and there have been an increasing number of attempts to restructure and deregulate state schooling. Global trade agreements foster domestic and international trade in education services treating education as a commodity to be sold and purchased, and many countries adopt various forms of market-related practices in education. These are not neutral, technical, managerial changes in the production and delivery of public education. They transform education in ways that have profound social and edu- tional consequences. To justify the introduction of market reforms in education public schools and educators are being defamed and accused of a series of vices, such as inef?ciency and laziness. We must be reminded that public education, i. e. , mandatory publicly ?nanced schooling, that was introduced in Austria as early as in 1874 and spread to other countries, was considered the most progressive movement of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Public schools were established to make education univ- sally available to all children, free of charge, and have been recognized as gateways to opportunity (Kober, 2006).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Retreat from Public Education

  • Book Subtitle: Global and Israeli Perspectives

  • Authors: Orit Ichilov

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9570-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9569-6Published: 28 March 2009

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8158-2Published: 19 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-9570-2Published: 07 March 2009

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 150

  • Topics: Sociology of Education, Sociology, general

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