Individualism and Community: Education and Social Policy in the Postmodern Condition
Introduction - the crisis of the welfare state in the postmodern condition Section 1 Communitarian approaches to the crisis introduction: social policy and the move to community democracy and community-based social policy welfare and community - the New Zealand experiment. Section 2 Neo- liberal individualism: introduction the new right reforms of education the politics of choice - public choice theory and the autonomous chooser children of rogernomics - the new right, individualism and the culture of narcissism. Section 3 Methodological responses: introduction education and the ideal learning community educational policy analysis and the politics of interpretation. Section 4 The postmodern "way out": introduction postmodernism - the critique of reason and the rise of the new social movements beyond the philosophy of the subject - liberalism, education and the critique of individualism individualism and community - education and the politics of difference conclusion - critical social policy in the postmodern condition.