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Re-Politicizing the Scholastic: School and Schoolchildren between Politicization and De-Politicization
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Snir, Itay – Ethics and Education, 2016
This paper addresses the question "what is school?," and argues that the answer to this question has an essential political dimension. I focus on two very different attempts to characterize school--Ivan Illich's "Deschooling Society" and Jan Masschelein and Maarten Simons's "In Defence of the School"--and demonstrate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Role of Education, Educational Philosophy
Schools in Cross-Sector Alliances: What Do Schools Seek in Partnerships?
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Eyal, Ori; Yarm, Marissa – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2018
Purpose: In recent years, the rise of cross-sector alliances (CSAs) in education has elicited growing concerns regarding the unrestrained influence of external partners. Against this backdrop, this study aims to explore the ways in which public schools perceive and collaborate with nonsystem actors (NSAs). Research Methods: Using a qualitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, Public Schools, Administrator Attitudes
Supporting or Opposing Privatization in Education: Teachers' Attitudes and Positions of Power in Israeli Schools
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Addi-Raccah, Audray – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2012
The consequences of neoliberal policies in education are controversial. Based on the micro-political approach, this study had two aims: (1) to examine teachers' attitudes toward the effect of privatization on inequality and educational improvement; and (2) to examine the link between teachers' positions of power in school and their attitudes…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Foreign Countries, Privatization, Teacher Attitudes