Education! Education! Education!: Managerial Ethics and the Law of Unintended Consequences - Softcover

"The first thing that struck me was the diverse range of contributors [divided between 'old-school Tories' and those of a more liberal persuasion], united however in their disdain for the new positivism in education policy."--Mike Cole "Educational Review "

"1977 British slogan on the cover 'Education! Education! Education!' is a challenge for any professor. Stephen Prickett, one of editors, sadly notes: 'Each new measure, even as it is announced, subtly reinforces the opposite message: that teaching is a low-status profession, prepared to take almost anyone prepared to stand in front of a class'."--Liviu Drugus "The European Legacy ""

"The first thing that struck me was the diverse range of contributors [divided between 'old-school Tories' and those of a more liberal persuasion], united however in their disdain for the new positivism in education policy."--Mike Cole "Educational Review "

"1977 British slogan on the cover 'Education! Education! Education!' is a challenge for any professor. Stephen Prickett, one of editors, sadly notes: 'Each new measure, even as it is announced, subtly reinforces the opposite message: that teaching is a low-status profession, prepared to take almost anyone prepared to stand in front of a class'."--Liviu Drugus "The European Legacy ""

"The first thing that struck me was the diverse range of contributors [divided between 'old-school Tories' and those of a more liberal persuasion], united however in their disdain for the new positivism in education policy."

"1977 British slogan on the cover -- 'Education! Education! Education!' -- is a challenge for any professor. Stephen Prickett, one of editors, sadly notes: 'Each new measure, even as it is announced, subtly reinforces the opposite message: that teaching is a low-status profession, prepared to take almost anyone prepared to stand in front of a class'."

The essays in this book criticise the new positivism in education policy, whereby education is systematically reduced to those things that can be measured by so-called 'objective' tests. School curricula have been narrowed with an emphasis on measurable results in the 3 R's and the 'quality' of university departments is now assessed by managerial exercises based on commercial audit practice. As a result, the traditional notion of liberal arts education has been replaced by utilitarian productivity indices.