| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 237 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
New prospects series ; 4
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New prospects series ; 4.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-233) and index. |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; List of Figures; Introduction: The Crisis of the Welfare State in the Postmodern Condition; Social Policy and the Move to Community; Democracy and Community-based Social Policy; Welfare and the Future of Community: The New Zealand Experiment; The New Right Reforms of Education; The Politics of Choice: Public Choice Theory and the Autonomous Chooser; Children of Rogernomics: The New Right, Individualism and the Culture of Narcissism; From Education to Evaluation: The Ideal Learning Community. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Education -- Social aspects -- New Zealand.
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Education -- Social aspects. |
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New Zealand. |
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Education -- Political aspects -- New Zealand.
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Education -- Political aspects. |
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Postmodernism and education -- New Zealand.
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Postmodernism and education. |
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Individualism -- New Zealand.
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Individualism. |
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Communitarianism -- New Zealand.
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Communitarianism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Marshall, James (James D.)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Peters, Michael (Michael A.), 1948- Individualism and community. London ; Washington, D.C. : Falmer Press, 1996 (DLC) 96010988 |
| ISBN |
0203453859 (electronic book) |
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9780203453858 (electronic book) |
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0203261925 (electronic book) |
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9780203261927 (electronic book) |
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0750704861 (Paper) |
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0750704853 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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