Educational Partnerships and the State: The Paradoxes of Governing Schools, Children, and Families

B. Franklin, M. Bloch, T. Popkewitz, B. Franklin, M. Bloch, T. Popkewitz

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2003
• ISBN:
  9781403982643
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Educational Policy

Educational Partnerships and the State is a compelling collection of essays by an international group of scholars that provides a critical exploration of the role of partnerships in contemporary educational reform. Their focus is on the expanding role that collaboration between the public and private sector has come to play in the governing of schools, children, and families in response to an array of worldwide economic and social changes. The contributors to this volume highlight the new relationship between civil society and the state through partnerships and what that linkage has come to mean for an array of educational issues including academic achievement, school governance, school parent-relationships, teacher education, the construction of family and community involvement, and the discourses of reform as practices that order participation and action.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• About the Contributors
• Introduction: Educational Partnerships: An Introductory Framework
• PART I PARTNERSHIPS AND CHANGING PATTERNS OF GOVERNING
• PART II BETWEEN THE STATE, CIVIL SOCIETY, AND EDUCATION
• PART III SCHOOL REFORM AND PUBLIC–PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
• PART IV GOVERNING AS A PROBLEM OF INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION
• Index