Local States of Emergency: The contradictions of neo-liberal governance in education in New Zealand

Robertson, Susan L.; Dale, Roger

doi:10.1080/0142569022000015472

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“…For example, social democratic partnerships have the potential to promote less hierarchical and more active decision-making and to promote economic innovation. On the other hand, neoliberal partnerships may be a way of addressing contradictions in governance by offering solutions to state and market failures and allowing the state to steer at a distance through local community networks (Jessop 2002;Robertson and Dale 2002). The context in which partnerships operate is therefore important.…”

Section: Partnerships and The Field Of Powermentioning

confidence: 97%

Mapping the Field of VET Partnerships

Taylor

2009

Vocations and Learning

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This paper looks critically at partnerships in education and training by presenting a case study of a community-level partnership aimed at promoting high school apprenticeships in Ontario Canada. The analysis maps the field of social relations within this partnership in order to reveal institutionally-based struggles and their implications for youth training and employment. The assumptions within policy that employers are actively engaged as partners and that they and other stakeholders share a unitary vision for education and training are challenged. Rather, partnerships reflect tensions among partners that must be addressed in order to improve the learning affordances for youth.

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Section: Partnerships and The Field Of Powermentioning

confidence: 97%

Mapping the Field of VET Partnerships

Taylor

2009

Vocations and Learning

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“…Meanwhile, governments continue to leave important social responsibilities to the vagaries of the market while centralising power and control through funding and reporting mechanisms. When there is market failure the state is put in a contradictory position because it cannot be seen to support centralised solutions to market failure without undercutting neo-liberal ideology (Robertson & Dale, 2002). Instead, failure is presented in localised terms and addresses through 'emergency measures', like targeted case management of individuals, replacement of the principal of a failing school with another who has demonstrated success elsewhere.…”

Section: Neo-liberal Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

Social partnerships: Practices, paradoxes and prospects of Local Learning networks

2005

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This paper discusses the formation, character and contradictions of social partnerships.We report on a specific initiative, the Local Learning and Employment Networks (LLEN) established by the Victorian Government in Australia in 2001, documenting the nature of this initiative and how it is playing out. We draw attention to some of the tensions that exist between different agencies, including different agencies within government. Through this detailed case study it is possible to identify parallels between LLEN and other social partnership initiatives developing in other parts of the world. This process of situating a specific Australian partnership within the wider trend to social partnerships permits a more contextualised analysis. It shows the way social partnerships are developing as a consequence of education reform shaped by neo-liberal governance and various patterns of compliance and resistance to this political rationality. Between late 2000 and 2001, the Victorian State Government established LocalLearning and Employment Networks (LLEN) on a regional geographic basis. The establishment process was organised in two phases so that now, in 2003, there are 31 LLEN covering the whole of the state. The LLEN were charged with two key responsibilities. They were required to engage in community building through reinvigorating local co-operative approaches to planning, community renewal and effective service delivery. They were also required to support and build shared responsibility of, and ownership for, post compulsory education and training, especially for 15-19 year olds.

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“…This paper explores the political prehistory of NPM. Previous literature argues that only neoliberal ideas inspired NPM (Savoie 1994;Greenaway 1995;Rhodes 1996;Ventriss 2000;Ranson 2003;Marobela 2008;Leicht et al 2009;Bevir 2010;Boston 2010;de Vries 2010;Lorenz 2012;Guerrero-Orozco 2014); even in case studies of countries where left-wing or Social-Democratic governments have applied NPM reforms, scholars claim that neoliberal ideas have been highly significant causal forces (Mascarenhas 1993;Johnston 2000;Dale 2001;Robertson and Dale 2002;Lewis 2004). Keeping in mind that NPM is a set of market-oriented strategies for public-sector reform, it is perhaps not surprising that this assumption regarding the ideological roots of NPM has been made.…”

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Market, State, and Morality: Two Studies of How Left and Right Undermined Moral Motivation in the Swedish School System

Wennström¹

2017

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The bulk of the literature on the New Public Management (NPM) has been blind to the moral dimension of the market-oriented reforms of the public sector. However, this thesis studies the potential for institutional arrangements such as financial incentives and other market mechanisms to undermine intrinsic, moral motivation among both "producers" and "consumers" of tax-financed welfare services. The first paper demonstrates how the promotion of NPM-like ideas by various left-wing and right-wing agents after 1968 led to the erosion of a professional ethos among Swedish teachers. The second paper shows how an ill-conceived school voucher reform in Sweden, implemented under the banner of NPM, has encouraged moral hazard on the part of schools. The thesis demonstrates an ecumenism between the left and right that with few exceptions has been overlooked in political science. It also demonstrates that public administration systems that have adopted market-oriented reforms need morality in order to function in accordance with the principles underlying these institutions.

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Local States of Emergency: The contradictions of neo-liberal governance in education in New Zealand

Cited by 71 publications

References 15 publications

Mapping the Field of VET Partnerships

Mapping the Field of VET Partnerships

Social partnerships: Practices, paradoxes and prospects of Local Learning networks

Market, State, and Morality: Two Studies of How Left and Right Undermined Moral Motivation in the Swedish School System

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