Challenging the System?
A Dramatic Tale of Neoliberal Reform in an Australian High School
1st Edition
Published on 1. December 2006
209 pages
978-1-60752-581-3 (ISBN)
Description
The book is written with great clarity, and a strong awareness of the importance of the school's social milieu. Forsey cuts through the mealy mouthed official rhetoric of "education for all" and shows the massive, continuing influence of social class inequalities in Australian society. Class interests shape not only this school but the whole education system around it, public and private. Ravina High is seen as a "good school" largely because of its comfortable middle-class catchment.
All prices
More details
Other editions
Additional editions
Martin Forsey
Challenging the System? a Dramatic Tale of Neoliberal Reform in an Australian High School
A Dramatic Tale of Neoliberal Reform in an Australian High School
Book
11/2006
Information Age Publishing
€62.60
Article not available at the moment
Content
1 - Cover [Seite 1]
2 - Contents [Seite 7]
3 - Foreword [Seite 9]
4 - Acknowledgements [Seite 13]
5 - Chapter 1 Devolution in Practice [Seite 15]
5.1 - Discovering Devolution [Seite 17]
5.2 - Situating the Study Theoretically [Seite 22]
5.3 - Social Re-production, Structure, and Agency [Seite 24]
5.4 - The Structured Agency of Teachers [Seite 27]
6 - Chapter 2 Neoliberalism and Schools: Global Ideals, Local Realities [Seite 29]
6.1 - January 27, 1998-The Ravina High Staffroom [Seite 30]
6.2 - Grace and Neoliberalism [Seite 31]
6.3 - Working in a Highly Centralized System [Seite 33]
6.4 - Reforming Schools [Seite 41]
6.5 - "Better Schools" in Western Australia [Seite 44]
6.6 - Rhetoric and Practice [Seite 47]
7 - Chapter 3 A Good Ship to Sail [Seite 49]
7.1 - Searching for Good Schools [Seite 49]
7.2 - January 27, 1998: Rallying the Teachers [Seite 50]
7.3 - Structuring, Structured Structures [Seite 53]
7.4 - The School Council [Seite 54]
7.5 - Parents and Citizens [Seite 56]
7.6 - The School Executive [Seite 58]
7.7 - The Staff [Seite 63]
7.8 - The Staff Association [Seite 63]
7.9 - The Union [Seite 65]
7.10 - Not a Team School [Seite 66]
7.11 - Permanency and Its Contents [Seite 68]
7.12 - Permanency and Its Discontents [Seite 70]
7.13 - A Good Ship to Sail? [Seite 73]
8 - Chapter 4 Maintaining the Good Ship [Seite 75]
8.1 - A Classless Society? [Seite 75]
8.2 - The Good School as a Middle-Class School [Seite 77]
8.3 - The Social Geography of the Ravina High Catchment [Seite 79]
8.4 - When the Good School Turned Rough: An Oral History [Seite 83]
8.5 - Middle-Class Illusions [Seite 85]
8.6 - Social Class-Structured Agency [Seite 89]
8.7 - A "Middle-of-the-Road" School [Seite 91]
8.8 - Social Class and Cultural Schema [Seite 96]
8.9 - Reform and the Comfortable School [Seite 98]
9 - Chapter 5 Disturbing the Millpond [Seite 101]
9.1 - An Innovative Principal [Seite 101]
9.2 - From Good School to Academic School [Seite 104]
9.3 - From Government Institution to Private Enterprise [Seite 107]
9.4 - A School By Any Other Name: Grace and the EDWA [Seite 110]
9.5 - Beyond the Breach [Seite 115]
9.6 - Privatizing the School: Grace and Parent Representatives [Seite 117]
9.7 - Restructuring the Workplace: Grace and the Staff [Seite 122]
9.8 - Official Complaints: Grace and the Union [Seite 127]
9.9 - A Widening Rift [Seite 132]
9.10 - The Foundering Ship [Seite 134]
10 - Chapter 6 Conduct Unbecalming [Seite 137]
10.1 - Wednesday, January 27, 1999 [Seite 137]
10.2 - Redress, Power, and the Construction of Knowledge in the Public Sphere [Seite 139]
10.3 - Re-producing Public Knowledge [Seite 143]
10.4 - Surrendering Power [Seite 149]
10.5 - Continuing the Suspension [Seite 153]
10.6 - The Demotion of Grace [Seite 155]
10.7 - Reintegration [Seite 162]
11 - Chapter 7 Challenging the System? [Seite 165]
11.1 - Neoliberal Reform-Rhetoric versus Practice [Seite 168]
11.2 - Re-producing the "System": Neoliberalism in Practice [Seite 172]
11.3 - Bureaucrats, Administrators, Teachers, and Parents as Neoliberal Subjects [Seite 173]
12 - Chapter 8 What Shall We Do? [Seite 181]
12.1 - The Democratic Promise of Devolution [Seite 181]
13 - References [Seite 187]
14 - Index [Seite 197]
2 - Contents [Seite 7]
3 - Foreword [Seite 9]
4 - Acknowledgements [Seite 13]
5 - Chapter 1 Devolution in Practice [Seite 15]
5.1 - Discovering Devolution [Seite 17]
5.2 - Situating the Study Theoretically [Seite 22]
5.3 - Social Re-production, Structure, and Agency [Seite 24]
5.4 - The Structured Agency of Teachers [Seite 27]
6 - Chapter 2 Neoliberalism and Schools: Global Ideals, Local Realities [Seite 29]
6.1 - January 27, 1998-The Ravina High Staffroom [Seite 30]
6.2 - Grace and Neoliberalism [Seite 31]
6.3 - Working in a Highly Centralized System [Seite 33]
6.4 - Reforming Schools [Seite 41]
6.5 - "Better Schools" in Western Australia [Seite 44]
6.6 - Rhetoric and Practice [Seite 47]
7 - Chapter 3 A Good Ship to Sail [Seite 49]
7.1 - Searching for Good Schools [Seite 49]
7.2 - January 27, 1998: Rallying the Teachers [Seite 50]
7.3 - Structuring, Structured Structures [Seite 53]
7.4 - The School Council [Seite 54]
7.5 - Parents and Citizens [Seite 56]
7.6 - The School Executive [Seite 58]
7.7 - The Staff [Seite 63]
7.8 - The Staff Association [Seite 63]
7.9 - The Union [Seite 65]
7.10 - Not a Team School [Seite 66]
7.11 - Permanency and Its Contents [Seite 68]
7.12 - Permanency and Its Discontents [Seite 70]
7.13 - A Good Ship to Sail? [Seite 73]
8 - Chapter 4 Maintaining the Good Ship [Seite 75]
8.1 - A Classless Society? [Seite 75]
8.2 - The Good School as a Middle-Class School [Seite 77]
8.3 - The Social Geography of the Ravina High Catchment [Seite 79]
8.4 - When the Good School Turned Rough: An Oral History [Seite 83]
8.5 - Middle-Class Illusions [Seite 85]
8.6 - Social Class-Structured Agency [Seite 89]
8.7 - A "Middle-of-the-Road" School [Seite 91]
8.8 - Social Class and Cultural Schema [Seite 96]
8.9 - Reform and the Comfortable School [Seite 98]
9 - Chapter 5 Disturbing the Millpond [Seite 101]
9.1 - An Innovative Principal [Seite 101]
9.2 - From Good School to Academic School [Seite 104]
9.3 - From Government Institution to Private Enterprise [Seite 107]
9.4 - A School By Any Other Name: Grace and the EDWA [Seite 110]
9.5 - Beyond the Breach [Seite 115]
9.6 - Privatizing the School: Grace and Parent Representatives [Seite 117]
9.7 - Restructuring the Workplace: Grace and the Staff [Seite 122]
9.8 - Official Complaints: Grace and the Union [Seite 127]
9.9 - A Widening Rift [Seite 132]
9.10 - The Foundering Ship [Seite 134]
10 - Chapter 6 Conduct Unbecalming [Seite 137]
10.1 - Wednesday, January 27, 1999 [Seite 137]
10.2 - Redress, Power, and the Construction of Knowledge in the Public Sphere [Seite 139]
10.3 - Re-producing Public Knowledge [Seite 143]
10.4 - Surrendering Power [Seite 149]
10.5 - Continuing the Suspension [Seite 153]
10.6 - The Demotion of Grace [Seite 155]
10.7 - Reintegration [Seite 162]
11 - Chapter 7 Challenging the System? [Seite 165]
11.1 - Neoliberal Reform-Rhetoric versus Practice [Seite 168]
11.2 - Re-producing the "System": Neoliberalism in Practice [Seite 172]
11.3 - Bureaucrats, Administrators, Teachers, and Parents as Neoliberal Subjects [Seite 173]
12 - Chapter 8 What Shall We Do? [Seite 181]
12.1 - The Democratic Promise of Devolution [Seite 181]
13 - References [Seite 187]
14 - Index [Seite 197]
