Quality in Education: Competing Concepts
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...Despite this, school quality debates in India in recent years ‘have been steeped in a neoliberal perspective on the political economy’ (Kumar, 2010), dominated by a discourse of efficiency and ‘bang for the buck’ (ibid....
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...In line with this global trend, education policy in India has also seen the rise of discourses that champion private sector ‘efficiency’ over government provision, which has been interpreted by some as reflecting an alignment with a pro-market, neoliberal ideology (Kumar, 2010)....
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...According to this theory and the pedagogic advice it offers, learning is something that can be planned, predicted and accurately measured once it has occurred (Stenhouse, 1975)....
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...This is precisely the argument put forward by Wilkinson and Pickett (2009) in their study of economic growth in relation to its social outcomes....
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...Ideological Climate This brief introductory analysis reminds us of the two meanings of the term ‘quality', both of which are relevant to the recent history of the quality debate (Kumar and Sarangapani, 2004)....
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...This brief introductory analysis reminds us of the two meanings of the term ‘quality', both of which are relevant to the recent history of the quality debate (Kumar and Sarangapani, 2004)....
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