Individualism And Community

Education And Social Policy In The Postmodern Condition

Michael Peters, James Marshall

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2002
• eBook ISBN: 9781135717933
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Examining, in the widest sense, the changes in political philosophy that have occurred in Western capitalist states since the early 1980s, this book focuses on the introduction of neo-liberal principles in the combined area of social and education policy. New Zealand presents a paradigm example of the neo-liberal shift in political philosophy. From constituting the social laboratory of the Western world in the 1930s in terms of social welfare provision, New Zealand has become the neo-liberal experiment of the fully marketised society in the 1990s. Against the theoretical background of educational theory and practice, this book examines neo-liberalism and its critiques as responses to the so-called crisis of the welfare state and argues for a reformulated critical social policy in the postmodern condition. The conclusions about social policy drawn by the authors can be generalized to similar situations in other Western capitalist countries.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• New Prospects Series
• Full Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• List of Figures
• Section I: Communitartan Approaches to the Crisis
• Section II: Neo-liberal Individualism
• Section III: Methodological Responses to the Crisis
• Section IV: The Postmodern ‘Way Out’
• Conclusion: Critical Social Policy in the Postmodern Condition
• Bibliography
• Index