Political spectacle and the fate of American schools : symbolic politics and educational policies

"This timely and important book is both critical and constructive. As educational policy becomes one of our major political backgrounds and the connection between politics and policy is both underscored and criticized, Mary Lee Smith and her associates take their criticism one decisive step further, examining the transitive relation between politics and actual classroom practice. They show that educational policy serves as political propaganda directed at an electorate desperate for change. They refocus current educational debates, casting them in their true partisan light while demonstrating how the public can recognise symbolic policies and participate in the creation of policy that truly serves the public good."
"The authors argue that the most influential and well-known educational policy programs in the past 30 years are not based on democratic consensus, but are instead formulated by the political community as symbolic efforts meant to generate personal."@en

"Political spectacle and the fate of American schools : symbolic politics and educational policies"
"Political spectacle and the fate of American schools : symbolic politics and educational policies"@en
"Political Spectacle and the Fate of American Schools"@en
"Political spectacle and the fate of American schools"
"Political spectacle and the fate of American schools"@en