The (absent) politics of neo-liberal education policy

References

• Alexander , R. , ed. 2009 . Children, their world, their education: Final report and recommendations of the Cambridge Primary Review , London : Routledge .
   Google Scholar
• Au , W. 2009 . Unequal by design: High stakes testing and the standardization of inequality , New York , NY : Routledge .
   Google Scholar
• Ball , S.J. 1990 . Politics and policy making in education: Explorations in policy sociology , London : Taylor & Francis .
   Google Scholar
• Biesta , G. 2010 . Good education in age of measurement: Ethics, politics, democracy , Boulder , CO : Paradigm .
   Google Scholar
• Brown , W. 2006 . Regulating aversion: Tolerance in the age of identity and empire , Princeton , NJ : Princeton University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Carless , D. 2009 . Trust, distrust and their impact on assessment reform . Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education , 34 ( 1 ) : 79 – 89 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Chang , H.-J. 2010 . 23 things they don't tell you about capitalism , London : Allen Lane .
   Google Scholar
• Codd , J. 1988 . The construction and deconstruction of educational policy documents . Journal of Education Policy , 3 ( 3 ) : 235 – 247 .
   Google Scholar
• Connolly , W. 1995 . The ethos of pluralization , Minneapolis , MN : University of Minnesota Press .
   Google Scholar
• Dale , R. 1989 . The state and education policy , Milton Keynes : Open University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Dean , J. 2006 . Žižek's politics , New York , NY : Routledge .
   Google Scholar
• Duggan , L. 2003 . The twilight of equality: Neoliberalism, cultural politics, and the attack on democracy , Boston , MA : Beacon Press .
   Google Scholar
• Eagleton , T. 2001 . Enjoy! . Paragraph , 24 ( 2 ) : 40 – 52 .
   Google Scholar
• Easton , D. 1953 . The political system , New York , NY : Knopf .
   Google Scholar
• Fielding , M. and Moss , P. 2011 . Radical education and the common school: A democratic alternative , London : Routledge .
   Google Scholar
• Finegold , D. , McFarland , L. and Richardson , W. 1993 . Something borrowed, something learned? The transatlantic market in education and training reform , Washington , DC : The Brookings Institution .
   Google Scholar
• Franklin , B. 2004a . Education, education and indoctrination! Packaging politics and the three ‘Rs’ . Journal of Education Policy , 19 ( 3 ) : 255 – 270 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Franklin , B. 2004b . Packaging politics: Political communications in Britain's media democracy , 2nd , London : Arnold .
   Google Scholar
• Fraser , N. 1997 . Justice interruptus: Critical reflections on the ‘postsocialist’ condition , New York , NY : Routledge .
   Google Scholar
• Garrett, P. (2011). Rewards for great teachers [Media Release: May 2, 2011]. Canberra: Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR). Retrieved from http://ministers.deewr.gov.au/garrett/rewards-great-teachers (http://ministers.deewr.gov.au/garrett/rewards-great-teachers)
   Google Scholar
• Garrett , P. and Gillard , J. 2010 . My School website to deliver unprecedented school performance data [Joint Media Release: November 17, 2010]. Canberra: Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR). Retrieved from http://ministers.deewr.gov.au/garrett/my-school-website-provide-unprecedented-school-performance-data
   Google Scholar
• Garrett , P. and Gillard , J. 2011 . My School 2.0 delivers a new era of school transparency [Joint Media Release: March 4, 2011]. Canberra: Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR). Retrieved from http://ministers.deewr.gov.au/garrett/my-school-20-delivers-new-era-school-transparency
   Google Scholar
• Gewirtz , S. , Dickson , M. and Power , S. 2004 . Unravelling a ‘spun’ policy: A case study of the constitutive role of ‘spin’ in the education policy process . Journal of Education Policy , 19 ( 3 ) : 321 – 342 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gillard , J. 2008a . Politics and integrity: Delivering an education revolution , Melbourne : John Button Memorial Lecture .
   Google Scholar
• Gillard , J. 2008b . Reforming education and skills: Challenges of the twenty first century , London , UK : City of London Corporation .
   Google Scholar
• Gillard , J. 2010a . Delivering the education revolution , Canberra : National Press Club .
   Google Scholar
• Gillard , J. 2010b . “ Independent Education Union of Australia Forum ” . In Old Parliament House [Speech: March 17, 2010]: Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) Canberra Retrieved from http://ministers.deewr.gov.au/gillard/independent-education-union-australia-forum-old-parliament-house
   Google Scholar
• Glynos , J. 2001 . The grip of ideology: A Lacanian approach to the theory of ideology . Journal of Political Ideologies , 6 ( 2 ) : 191 – 214 .
   Google Scholar
• Glynos , J. and Howarth , D. 2007 . Logics of critical explanation in social and political theory , London : Routledge .
   Google Scholar
• Green , A. 1990 . Education and state formation: The rise of education systems in England , London : Macmillan .
   Google Scholar
• Grek , S. 2009 . Governing by numbers: The PISA ‘effect’ in Europe . Journal of Education Policy , 24 ( 1 ) : 23 – 37 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Habermas , J. 1984 . The theory of communicative action: Reason and the rationalization of society , Vol. 1 , Boston , MA : Beacon Press .
   Google Scholar
• Halsey , A.H. , Lauder , H. , Brown , P. and Wells , A.S. 1961 . Education, economy and society , London : Free Press .
   Google Scholar
• Harvey , D. 2010 . The enigma of capital and the crises of capitalism , London : Profile Books .
   Google Scholar
• Howarth , D. 2000 . Discourse , Buckingham : Open University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Hursh , D. 2008 . High-stakes testing and the decline of teaching and learning: The real crisis in education , Lanham , MD : Rowman & Littlefield .
   Google Scholar
• Hyslop-Margison , E. and Sears , A. 2006 . Neoliberalism, globalization and human capital learning: Reclaiming education for democratic citizenship , Dordrecht : Springer .
   Google Scholar
• Laclau , E. 1983 . The impossibility of society . Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory , 7 : 21 – 23 .
   Google Scholar
• Laclau , E. 2005 . On populist reason , London : Verso .
   Google Scholar
• Laclau , E. and Mouffe , C. 2001 . Hegemony and socialist strategy: Towards a radical democratic politics , 2nd , London : Verso .
   Google Scholar
• Larsen , M. 2010 . Troubling the discourse of teacher centrality: A comparative perspective . Journal of Education Policy , 25 ( 2 ) : 207 – 231 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lingard , B. 2010 . Policy borrowing, policy learning: Testing times in Australian schooling . Critical Studies in Education , 51 ( 2 ) : 129 – 147 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lingard , B. and Rawolle , S. 2004 . Mediatizing educational policy: The journalistic field, science policy, and cross-field effects . Journal of Education Policy , 19 ( 3 ) : 353 – 372 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Marginson , S. 1997 . Markets in education , St. Leonards , NSW : Allen and Unwin .
   Google Scholar
• May , T. 2011 . Contemporary political movements and the thought of Jacques Rancière: Equality in action , Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Monck , R. 2005 . “ Neoliberalism and politics: The politics of neoliberalism ” . In Neoliberalism: A critical reader , Edited by: Saad Filho , A. and Johnston , D. 60 – 69 . London : Pluto Press .
   Google Scholar
• Moore , A. 2004 . The good teacher: Dominant discourses in teaching and teacher education , London : Routledge .
   Google Scholar
• Mouffe , C. 2000 . The democratic paradox , London : Verso Books .
   Google Scholar
• Mouffe , C. 2005 . On the political , Abingdon : Routledge .
   Google Scholar
• National Commission on Excellence in Education . 1983 . A nation at risk , Washington , DC : US Government Printing Office .
   Google Scholar
• Polanyi , K. 1944 . The great transformation: Economic and political origins of our time , New York , NY : Rinehart .
   Google Scholar
• Prunty , J. 1984 . A critical reformulation of educational policy analysis , Geelong , VIC : Deakin University .
   Google Scholar
• Pykett , J. 2007 . Making citizens governable? The Crick Report as governmental technology . Journal of Education Policy , 22 ( 3 ) : 301 – 319 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rancière , J. 1999 . Disagreement: Politics and philosophy , Edited by: Rose , J. Minneapolis , MN : University of Minnesota Press .
   Google Scholar
• Rancière , J. 2010 . Dissensus: On politics and aesthetics , Edited by: Corcoran , S. London : Continuum .
   Google Scholar
• Reilly , D. 1996 . Education: The captive profession , Aldershot : Avebury .
   Google Scholar
• Rizvi , F. and Lingard , B. 2010 . Globalizing education policy , New York , NY : Routledge .
   Google Scholar
• Rudd, K., & Gillard, J. (2008). Quality education: The case for an education revolution in our schools. Retrieved from http://www.deewr.gov.au/Schooling/Programs/Pages/QualityEducation-ThecaseforanEducationRevolutioninourSchools.aspx (http://www.deewr.gov.au/Schooling/Programs/Pages/QualityEducation-ThecaseforanEducationRevolutioninourSchools.aspx)
   Google Scholar
• Savage , G. 2011 . When worlds collide: Excellent and equitable learning communities? Australia's ‘social capitalist’ paradox? . Journal of Education Policy , 26 ( 1 ) : 33 – 59 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Shapiro , S. 1990 . Between capitalism and democracy: Education policy and the crisis of the welfare state , New York , NY : Bergin & Garvey .
   Google Scholar
• Spencer , H. 1864 . Education: Intellectual, moral and physical , New York , NY : D. Appleton & Company .
   Google Scholar
• Steger , M. 2008 . The rise of the global imaginary: Political ideologies from the French Revolution to the global war on terror , Oxford : Oxford University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Stobart , G. 2008 . Testing times: The uses and abuses of assessment , New York , NY : Routledge .
   Google Scholar
• Stråth , B. 2005 . “ The monetary issue and European economic policy in historical perspective ” . In The economy as polity: The political constitution of contemporary capitalism , Edited by: Joerges , C. , Stråth , B. and Wagner , P. 59 – 76 . London : UCL Press .
   Google Scholar
• Taubman , P. 2009 . Teaching by numbers: Deconstructing the discourse of standards and accountability in education , New York , NY : Routledge .
   Google Scholar
• Torfing , J. 1999 . New theories of discourse: Laclau, Mouffe and Zizek , Oxford : Blackwell .
   Google Scholar
• Wallace , M. 1993 . Discourse of derision: The role of the mass media within the education policy process . Journal of Education Policy , 8 ( 4 ) : 321 – 337 .
   Google Scholar
• Wilkinson , R. and Pickett , K. 2009 . The spirit level: Why more equal societies almost always do better , London : Allen Lane .
   Google Scholar
• Wolf , A. 2002 . Does education matter? Myths about education and economic growth , London : Penguin .
   Google Scholar
• Žižek , S. 1989 . The sublime object of ideology , London : Verso Books .
   Google Scholar