{"product_id":"mapping-corporate-education-reform-wayne-au-9781138792005","title":"Mapping Corporate Education Reform: Power and Policy Networks in the Neoliberal State","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMapping Corporate Education Reform\u003c\/em\u003e outlines and analyzes the complex relationships between policy actors that define education reform within the current, neoliberal context. Using social network analysis and powerful data visualization tools, the authors identify the problematic roots of these relationships and describe their effects both in the U.S. and abroad. Through a series of case studies, each chapter reveals how powerful actors, from billionaire philanthropists to multinational education corporations, leverage their resources to implement free market mechanisms within public education.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy comprehensively connecting the dots of neoliberal education reforms, the authors reveal not only the details of the reforms themselves, but the relationships that enable actors to amass troubling degrees of political power through network governance. A critical analysis of the actors and interests behind education policies, \u003cem\u003eMapping Corporate Education Reform \u003c\/em\u003euncovers the frequently obscured operations of educational governance and offers key insights into education reform at the present moment. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wayne Au\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1138792004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781138792005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/10\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Wayne Au","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44120951455999,"sku":"9781138792005","price":64.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_153ee83b-366e-44aa-8e3f-6a766a017e67.jpg?v=1687417188","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mapping-corporate-education-reform-wayne-au-9781138792005","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}