| Education! Education! Education!: Managerial Ethics and the Law of Unintended Consequences Contributor(s): Prickett, Stephen (Editor), Erskine-Hill, Patricia (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0907845363 ISBN-13: 9780907845362 Publisher: Imprint Academic (Ips) OUR PRICE: $34.11 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Administration - General - Education | Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects |
| Dewey: 379.41 |
| LCCN: 2002102730 |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 5.72" W x 8.34" (0.69 lbs) 250 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The essays in this book criticise the new positivism in education policy, whereby education is systematically reduced to those things that can be measured by so-called 'objective' tests. School curricula have been narrowed with an emphasis on measurable results in the 3 R's and the 'quality' of university departments is now assessed by managerial exercises based on commercial audit practice. As a result, the traditional notion of liberal arts education has been replaced by utilitarian productivity indices. |