Main Individualism And Community: Education And Social Policy In The Postmodern Condition (New Prospects Series, 4)

Individualism And Community: Education And Social Policy In The Postmodern Condition (New Prospects Series, 4)

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Examining, in the widest sense, the changes in political philosophy that have occurred in Western capitalist states since the early 1980s, this book focuses on the introduction of neo-liberal principles in the combined area of social and education policy. New Zealand presents a paradigm example of the neo-liberal shift in political philosophy. From constituting the "social laboratory" of the Western world in the 1930s in terms of social welfare provision, New Zealand has become the neo-liberal "experiment" of the fully "marketised" society in the 1990s. Against the theoretical background of educational theory and practice, this book examines neo-liberalism and its critiques as responses to the so-called crisis of the welfare state and argues for a reformulated critical social policy in the postmodern condition. The conclusions about social policy drawn by the authors can be generalized to similar situations in other Western capitalist countries.
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Year:
1996
Edition:
1
Language:
English
Pages:
248
ISBN 10:
0750704861
ISBN 13:
9780203261927
ISBN:
0750704853,9780750704854,0750704861,9780750704861,9780203261927

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