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| formal, legislated, constructed within government |
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| What is small 'p' policy? |
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| enacted locally or based on reports, speeches, agendas etc |
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| the movement of people and programmes around common, constantly shifting problems |
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| What is a knowledge based economy? |
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| economy where knowledge is a business commodity. Knowledge based economy sees knowledge and information replacing capital and energy |
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| Criticisms of the knowledge based economy |
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1. narrow approach to intellectual culture
2. empirical evidence weak (service economy larger)
3. reinforces social and economic inequality |
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| 'one world'; nation state eradicated in favour of multinational and supranational organisations. |
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| Globalisation overstated; globalisation issues are adapted for local needs |
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| Influence of World Bank on education |
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| places conditions on loans to promote privatisation of education and the americanisation of the world economy |
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| Influence of the OECD on education |
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| research and advise only and have no formal power but power based on peer pressure (e.g. PISA league tables) |
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| Influence of WTO on education |
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| seeks deregulation of service sectors and, through GATS (General Agreement on Trade-in Services), allows cross border private sector penetration of education |
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| Influence of the EU on education |
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| programmes and initiatives that seek to harmonise policy across EU (the European Education Model). No sanctions, power through peer pressure. |
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| closely related policy ideas that permeate education systems to create an 'epidemic' of policies spreading. Current policy epidemics relate to management, the market and performativity. |
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| What are policy technologies? |
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| deployment of organisation and procedures to organise human forces into a functioning system |
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| Policy technology - the market |
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| education markets are based on competition and self interest |
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| Policy technology - management |
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| school leaders are the "new cultural heroes" instilling corporate culture and accountability into schools. They are a new mode of power across the private sector |
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| Policy technology - performativity |
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| regime of accountability employing judgements and comparisons as a form of control and change. Reliance on data, appraisal, surveillance, league tables and inspections. |
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