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Publication Date: 2008-Dec
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Education, Markets and the Pedagogy of Personalisation
Hartley, David
British Journal of Educational Studies, v56 n4 p365-381 Dec 2008
The marketisation of education in England began in the 1980s. It was facilitated by national testing (which gave objective and comparable information to parents), and by the New Public Management (which introduced a posteriori funding and competition among providers). Now a new complementary phase of marketisation is being introduced: personalisation, whose intellectual provenance is in marketing theory. Conceptually, personalisation is imprecise; practically, at this stage, its intended effects within schools may amount to no more than a new legitimatory rhetoric which leaves pedagogy and the curriculum little changed.
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational History, National Standards, Testing Programs, Educational Finance, Competition, Marketing
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (England)
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