The Retreat from Public Education

The Retreat from Public Education
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 148
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ISBN-10 : 9781402095702
ISBN-13 : 1402095708
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Book Synopsis The Retreat from Public Education by : Orit Ichilov

Download or read book The Retreat from Public Education written by Orit Ichilov and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-03-07 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).


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