Neoliberalism and Education Systems in Conflict: Exploring Challenges Across the Globe (Educational Leadership and Policy Decision-Making in Neoliberal Times)

Neoliberalism and Education Systems in Conflict: Exploring Challenges Across the Globe explores how neoliberal values are imprinted onto educational spaces and practices, and by consequence, fundamentally reshape how we come to understand the educational experience at the school or system level. Countries across the globe struggle with the residual effects of increased accountability, choice/voucher systems, and privatization. The first section of the book discusses the direct imprint of neoliberal policies on educational spaces. The next section examines the more indirect outcomes of neoliberalism, including the challenges of inequity, access, violence, racism, and social justice issues as a result of neoliberal ideologies. Each section of the book includes case studies about education systems across the globe, including Britain, Middle East, Turkey, United States, China, and Chile written by international contributors. Neoliberalism and Education Systems in Conflict is essential reading for educators, scholars, and faculty of educational leadership and policy globally. A call to explore and map the educatıonal challenges under neolıberalısm across the globe / Khalid Arar, Deniz Örücü and Jane Wilkinson -- Challenges of school principals and teachers in private schools : comparison of Turkısh and Palestenian cases / Deniz Örücü and Khalid Arar -- Neolıberal challenges in public schools in Hong Kong : an East Asian model? / Paula Kwan, Benjamin Yuet Man Li and Trevor Tsz-lok Lee -- Principals' leadership tensioned by market pressures In Chile / Romina Madrid Miranda, Claudia Córdoba Calquín and Catherine Flores Gómez -- Polıcy-practıce decouplıng : education inspection reform in China / Meng Tian and Xianjun Lan -- Issues in pre- and primary school education in rural Turkey : teachers' experiences and perspectives / Ecem Karlıdağ-Dennis and Zeynep Temiz -- Stepping up or stepping aside? : the necessity of balancing promise with critique / Maysaa Barakat and Daniel Reyes-Guerraa -- Neoliberalism : the straw that broke the back of Lebanon's education system / Julia Mahfouz -- The neoliberal challenge to leading in disadvantaged public primary schools in Victoria, Australia / Katrina MacDonald, Jane Wilkinson and Corine Rivalland -- Educational administration challenges in the destabilised and disintegrating states of Syria and Yemen : the intersectionality of violence, culture, ideology, class/status group and postcoloniality / Eugenie A. Samier -- Commonalities in schools and education systems around the world shifting from welfarism to neo liberalism : are the kids are okay? / Alison Taysum and Carole Collins Ayanlaja -- Doing social justice leadership in challenging circumstances : principals' perspectives / Rinnelle Lee-Piggott, Dyanis Conrad-Popova and Dennis Conrad -- How leaders of outstandıng Muslım schools in England interpret Islamic educatıonal values in a neolıberal clımate : 'Brıtısh values' and market competıtıon / Fella Lahmar -- Concluding remarks : meeting at the global/local nexus of school challenges : what next / Khalid Arar, Deniz Örücü and Jane Wilkinson Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 6 Figures 8 Tables 9 Editors and Contributors 10 Foreword 17 Preface 21 1. A Call to Explore and Map the Educational Challenges under Neoliberalism Across the Globe 26 Part I: Challenges of Markets, Poverty and Privatization 36 2. Challenges of School Principals and Teachers in Private Schools: Comparison of Two Cases in the Middle East 38 3. Neoliberal Challenges in Public Schools in Hong Kong: An East Asian Model? 54 4. Principals’ Leadership Tensioned by Market Pressures in Chile 67 5. Policy–Practice Decoupling: Education Inspection Reform in China 81 6. Issues in Pre- and Primary School Education in Rural Turkey: Teachers’ Experiences and Perspectives 99 7. Stepping Up or Stepping Aside? The Necessity of Balancing Promise with Critique 115 8. Neoliberalism – The Straw that Broke the Back of Lebanon’s Education System 132 9. The Neoliberal Challenge to Leading in Disadvantaged Public Primary Schools in Victoria, Australia 143 Part II: Challenges of Immigration, Conflict and Social Injustice 158 10. Educational Administration Challenges in the Destabilised and Disintegrating States of Syria and Yemen: The Intersectionality of Violence, Culture, Ideology, Class/Status Group and Postcoloniality 160 11. Commonalities in Schools and Education Systems Around The World Shifting from Welfarism to Neo Liberalism: Are the Kids Okay? 176 12. Doing Social Justice Leadership in Challenging Circumstances: Principals’ Perspectives 191 13. How Leaders of Outstanding Muslim Schools in England Interpret Islamic Educational Values in a Neoliberal Climate: “British Values” and Market Competition 208 Concluding Remarks: The Global/Local Nexus of School Challenges Under Neoliberal Policies: What Next? 224 Index 231 "Neoliberalism and Education Systems in Conflict: Exploring Challenges Across the Globe explores how neoliberal values are imprinted onto educational spaces and practices, and by consequence, fundamentally reshape how we come to understand the educational experience at the school or system-level. Countries across the globe struggle with the residual effects of increased accountability, choice/voucher systems, and privatization. The first section of the book discusses the direct imprint of neoliberal policies on educational spaces. The next section examines the more indirect outcomes of neoliberalism, including the challenges of inequity, access, violence, racism and social justice issues as a result of neoliberal ideologies. Each section of the book includes case studies about education systems across the globe, including Britain, Middle East, Turkey, United States, China, and Chile written by international contributors. Neoliberalism and Education Systems in Conflict is essential reading for educators, scholars and faculty of educational leadership and policy globally"-- Provided by publisher