Travelling tales: education reform and parental ‘choice’ in postmodern times
- 1 January 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Education Policy
- Vol. 11 (1) , 75-88
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0268093960110104
Abstract
This paper draws on research with parent activists in Ontario, Canada, to argue that local responses to educational change promoted in the name of transnational economies and consumer culture are uneven. In particular, it suggests that it is wrong to assume that ‘parents’ comprise a unified constituency with similar interests in relation to education or that they can and do take up identical positions in the contemporary politics of school reform.Keywords
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