Pluralist Publics in Market-Driven Education: Towards More Democracy in Educational Reform

Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Visualizing Pluralist Public Education
	Public education
	A methodology for policy as practice
	The structure of the book
2 Theorizing Pluralist Public Education
	Publics and their opinion
	The greater community of the twenty-first century
	Who is the public in public schooling?
	The uncommon public school
	Conclusion
3 Opening a Window on the Private Sphere
	Private education
	Limits to public purposes of private schools
	Conditional publicness in English private schools
	Privatized education
	Privatization in schooling
4 Mapping Governance Structures
	Struggle for the public in conditional public entities
	Corporations: For the benefit of members?
	Charitable, not-for-profit and public benefit organizations
	Public–private partnerships
	The rise of social enterprise and for-profit public benefit
	Mapping structural forms
5 Public Benefit/Public Good
	Contested purposes of schooling
	Governance for the public good in private sector schooling
	Conditional equality in private schooling: A research study
	Governance in the case study schools
	The extent and nature of the public good
6 Pluralist Public Accountability
	The school
	The research project
	Classification and framing within the projects
	Participation and learning inside the projects
	Democratic participation in education markets
	Public accountability in a conditional counterpublic
7 Bounded Public Service
	Relations between local authorities and schools
	Models of service
		Corporate model
		Community engagement model
		Entrepreneurial model
		Co-operative model
	Implications of reform across the local government sector
	Discussion
8 Public Education Unbounded
	Recontextualization in the academies programme
	Policy to support democratic publics
	Closing thoughts
References
Index