Educational policy

Politics, Markets and the Decline of ‘Publicness

Bibliographic Data

ID6326539
AuthorsJenny Stewart (0000-0001-8804-8196, University of Canberra, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume33
Issue3
Pages475-487
Publication date2005-07-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolicy & Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0305-5736 • E-ISSN: 1470-8442
PublisherBristol University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1332/0305573054325693
OpenAlexW2002369032
LanguageEN
Citations received7

English Educational policy represents a distinctive example of the changing public–private boundary that has characterised Australian public policy over the past 20 years. A values-based analysis is used to describe the trajectory of change, and to illuminate points of tension in governance and accountability relationships. As the values that subtend educational policy have changed, so the policy system (and in particular the governance mechanisms through which funding and regulation are dispensed) has responded in ways that have partly defused values conflict, and partly exacerbated it. It is suggested that forms of ‘frame reflection’ will be required in order to transcend traditional Australian notions of ‘publicness’ in education in ways that recognise the growing strength of the private sector in school education, and of competition between institutions in higher education

Accountability · Competition (biology · Corporate governance · Economics · Education policy · Higher education · Management · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Public policy · Sociology · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Law · Public Administration

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