Middle-class school choice in urban spaces: the economics of public schooling and globalized education reform Rowe, Emma E. 2017, Middle-class school choice in urban spaces: the economics of public schooling and globalized education reform, Routledge, Abingdon, Eng.. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Middle-class school choice in urban spaces: the economics of public schooling and globalized education reform Author(s) Rowe, Emma E. orcid.org/0000-0002-3747-8070 Publication date 2017 Series Routledge research in education policy and politics Total pages 190 Publisher Routledge Place of Publication Abingdon, Eng. Summary Middle-class School Choice in Urban Spaces examines government-funded public schools from a range of perspectives and scholarship in order to examine the historical, political and economic conditions of public schooling within a globalized, post-welfare context. In this book, Rowe argues that post-welfare policy conditions are detrimental to government-funded public schools, as they engender consistent pressure in rearticulating the public school in alignment with the market, produce tensions in serving the more historical conceptualizations of public schooling, and are preoccupied by contemporary profit-driven concerns.Chapters focus on public schooling from different global perspectives, with examples from Chile and the US, to examine how various social movements encapsulate ideologies around public schooling. Rowe also draws upon a rich, five-year ethnographic study of campaigns lobbying the Victorian State Government in Australia for a brand-new, local-specific public school. Critical attention is paid to the public school as a means to achieve empowerment and overcome discrimination, and both a local and global lens are used to identify how parents choose the public school, the values they attach to it, and the strategies they use to obtain it. Also considered, however, are how quality gaps, distances and differences between public schools threaten to undermine the democracy of education as a means for individuals to be socially mobile and escape poverty.This book makes an important contribution to our understanding of global social movements and activism around public education. As such, it will be of key interest to researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the field of education, specifically those working on school choice, class and identity, as well as educational geography. ISBN 1138120413 9781138120419 Language eng Field of Research 130106 Secondary Education 130302 Comparative and Cross-Cultural Education 160506 Education Policy 160810 Urban Sociology and Community Studies Socio Economic Objective 939903 Equity and Access to Education HERDC Research category A1 Books - authored - research ERA Research output type A Book Copyright notice ©2017, Routledge Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30078868 Document type: Book Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Education Related Links Link Description   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 06 Oct 2015, 07:52:42 EST Tue, 06 Oct 2015, 08:45:58 EST Tue, 25 Oct 2016, 11:36:25 EST Thu, 27 Oct 2016, 15:20:22 EST Thu, 03 Nov 2016, 11:15:56 EST Fri, 04 Nov 2016, 08:08:45 EST Mon, 14 Nov 2016, 14:51:24 EST Mon, 14 Nov 2016, 14:53:24 EST Mon, 14 Nov 2016, 14:54:19 EST Sat, 12 Aug 2017, 02:31:45 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 2 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 492 Abstract Views, 1 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 27 Oct 2016, 15:20:22 EST

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