School Choice: Neoliberal Education Policy and Imagined Futures

Autor/in	Angus, Lawrence
Titel	School Choice: Neoliberal Education Policy and Imagined Futures
Quelle	In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 36 (2015) 3, S.395-413 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-5692
DOI	10.1080/01425692.2013.823835
Schlagwörter	School Choice; Neoliberalism; Web Sites; Comparative Analysis; Foreign Countries; World Views; Values; Educational Sociology; Educational Policy; Social Class; Politics of Education; Self Concept; Advantaged; Commercialization; Academic Aspiration; Futures (of Society); Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Choice of school; Schulwahl; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Web-Design; Ausland; World view; Weltanschauung; Wertbegriff; Bildungssoziologie; Erziehungssoziologie; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Educational policy; Selbstkonzept; Future; Society; Zukunft; Australien
Abstract	The launch in Australia of a government website that compares all schools on the basis of student performance in standardized tests illustrates the extent to which neoliberal policies have been entrenched. This paper examines the problematic nature of choosing schools within the powerful political context of neoliberalism. It illustrates how key elements of the neoliberal worldview are normalized in the day-to-day practices of schooling and how certain norms and values that characterize neoliberalism are shaped and reinforced in the education system and also in personal, family and social imaginaries. The task for educational sociology, therefore, is to problematize and 're-imagine' the prevailing neoliberal imaginary. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01