Educational Partnerships and the State: The Paradoxes of Governing Schools, Children, and Families

Educational Partnerships and the State is a compelling collection of essays by an international group of scholars that provides a critical exploration of the role of partnerships in contemporary educational reform. Their focus is on the expanding role that collaboration between the public and private sector has come to play in the governing of schools, children, and families in response to an array of worldwide economic and social changes. The contributors to this volume highlight the new relationship between civil society and the state through partnerships and what that linkage has come to mean for an array of educational issues including academic achievement, school governance, school parent-relationships, teacher education, the construction of family and community involvement, and the discourses of reform as practices that order participation and action.

EDGAR AMADOR Graduate Student in applied anthropology, University of South Florida, USAJENNIFER AVERY Graduate Student in applied anthropology, University of South Florida, USAM. YVETT BABER Independent Researcher in applied anthropologyMARIANNE N. BLOCH Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USAKATHRYN M. BORMAN Professor of Anthropology and Assistant Director, David C. Anchin Center, University of South Florida, USAR. BUENFIL BURGOS Professor of Education, Cinvastev, MexicoMIRAM E. DAVID Professor of Policy Studies, Department of Education and Director, Graduate School of Science Sciences, Keele University, UKMARNY DICKSON Research Officer, Education Policy Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London, UKLYNN FENDLER Assistant Professor of Education, Department of Teacher Education, Michigan State University, USABARRY M. FRANKLIN Professor and Head of the Department of Secondary Education, Utah State University, USASHARON GEWIRTZ Professor of Education, King's College London, UKDAVID HALPIN Professor of Education and Head of the School of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment, Institute of Education, University of London, UKI-FANG LEE Doctoral Student in curriculum and instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USAHENRY M. LEVIN William H. Kilpatrick Professor of Economics and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, USAGARY MCCULLOCH Brian Simon Professor of the History of Education, Institute of Education, University of London, UKRUTH L. PEACH Doctoral Student in Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USATHOMAS S. POPKEWITZ Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USASALLY POWER Professor of Education and Head of the School of Educational Foundation and Policy Studies, Institute of Education, University of London, UKGEOFF WHITTY Director of the Institute of Education, University of London, USA