__ LIPS – Leading in Public Schools

Barry Jones has some things to say about the outcome of a focus on managerialism in education.

In 1942 Eleanor Roosevelt wrote: “A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal responsibility that too often is neglected.”

Many of us believed, and still continue to hope, that public education would be an instrument for personal and societal transformation. But education often seems to entrench or reinforce existing abilities, or disabilities, advantages or disadvantages. 

Click here to read the article on the Melbourne Age