Introduction Part Two

Question 1

Who was the first British PM to give a speech on education, where/when was it given, and what was the significance of the speech?

Answer 1

James Callaghan, Ruskin College 1976. Signaled the start of the great education debate and shook the public’s faith in comprehensive edu/end of teacher autonomy
Brought edu policy from the peripheral onto center policy stage

Question 2

What is the definition of Neoliberalism as defined by Jones (2016)?

Answer 2

A free market ideology based on individual liberty and limited government that connected human freedom to the actions of the rational, self-interested actor in the competitive market place

Question 3

What are some general hallmarks of Neoliberal ideology

Answer 3

Reduced trade regulation
Globalization
Decreased gov spending
Dereg capital markets
Eliminating price controls
(State should stay out of econ and social activities as much as possible)

Question 4

What is Methodological Nationalism?

Answer 4

The bias that scholars have in assuming that the nation-state is the natural social and political actor/sole unit of analysis

Question 5

How is education conceptualized within policy the global policy speak in England (Beck 2006)?

Answer 5

1. Economic necessity
2. Individual private good that we choose and use for personal benefit
3. Key factor in individual social mobility

Question 6

What is policy overload/activism?

Answer 6

Policy overload/activism is the need to show the dynamism of government/need of gov to be seen as doing something

Question 7

What is fast policy?

Answer 7

Policy that is coproduced by intensified and instantaneous connectivity between actors that spreads throughout the world quickly

Question 8

What programs/ideas has England imported?

Answer 8

Core knowledge and charter schools (US)
Free Schools (Sweden)
Maths teaching methods (China?)

Question 9

What programs/ideas has England exported?

Answer 9

School-based management
Info and accountability systems
Outsourcing to nonstate actors/public-private partnerships

Question 10

For the Conservative Party, EduPol is not just about economic policy, but also

Answer 10

Social policy, nation building, and citizenship

Question 11

Education policy must be analyzed in the context of

Answer 11

history and the broader society

Question 12

Policy is an on-going process that is

Answer 12

interactable and unstable