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Individualism and community : education and social policy in the postmodern condition / Michael Peters and James Marshall.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: New prospects series ; 4.Publisher: London ; Washington, D.C. : Falmer Press, 1996Description: ix, 237 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0750704853
  • 9780750704854
  • 0750704861
  • 9780750704861
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.430993
LOC classification:
  • LC191.8.N45 P48 1996
Contents:
Preface and Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- Introduction: The Crisis of the Welfare State in the Postmodern Condition -- Sect. I. Communitarian Approaches to the Crisis -- 1. Social Policy and the Move to Community -- 2. Democracy and Community-based Social Policy -- 3. Welfare and the Future of Community: The New Zealand Experiment -- Sect. II. Neo-liberal Individualism -- 4. The New Right Reforms of Education -- 5. The Politics of Choice: Public Choice Theory and the Autonomous Chooser -- 6. Children of Rogernomics: The New Right, Individualism and the Culture of Narcissism -- Sect. III. Methodological Responses to the Crisis -- 7. From Education to Evaluation: The Ideal Learning Community -- 8. Educational Policy Analysis and the Politics of Interpretation -- Sect. IV. The Postmodern 'Way Out' -- 9. Postmodernism: The Critique of Reason and the Rise of the New Social Movements -- 10. Beyond the Philosophy of the Subject: Liberalism, Education and the Critique of Individualism -- 11. Individualism and Community: Education and the Politics of Difference -- Conclusion: Critical Social Policy in the Postmodern Condition -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-233) and index.

Preface and Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- Introduction: The Crisis of the Welfare State in the Postmodern Condition -- Sect. I. Communitarian Approaches to the Crisis -- 1. Social Policy and the Move to Community -- 2. Democracy and Community-based Social Policy -- 3. Welfare and the Future of Community: The New Zealand Experiment -- Sect. II. Neo-liberal Individualism -- 4. The New Right Reforms of Education -- 5. The Politics of Choice: Public Choice Theory and the Autonomous Chooser -- 6. Children of Rogernomics: The New Right, Individualism and the Culture of Narcissism -- Sect. III. Methodological Responses to the Crisis -- 7. From Education to Evaluation: The Ideal Learning Community -- 8. Educational Policy Analysis and the Politics of Interpretation -- Sect. IV. The Postmodern 'Way Out' -- 9. Postmodernism: The Critique of Reason and the Rise of the New Social Movements -- 10. Beyond the Philosophy of the Subject: Liberalism, Education and the Critique of Individualism -- 11. Individualism and Community: Education and the Politics of Difference -- Conclusion: Critical Social Policy in the Postmodern Condition -- Bibliography -- Index.

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