International perspectives on educational reform and policy implementation

by David A. Carter

These cases are drawn from a period in which political intervention and attempts to control the curriculum are more overt than they have been before. The contributors document government attempts to reform education by legislation, and to harness education to national productivity in manpowering approaches to curriculum. With one or two exceptions, common features of the cases appear to be marginalization of professional educators, corporatization of education systems, instrumentalization of curriculum, and a wilful disregard of anything that might have been learned about education in the...

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