Education in the Marketplace
An Intellectual History of Pro-Market Libertarian Visions for Education in Twentieth Century America
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Beschreibung
This book offers an intellectual history of the libertarian case for markets in education. Currie-Knight tracks the diverse and evolving arguments libertarians have made, with each chapter devoted to a different libertarian thinker, their reasoning and their impact.
What are the issues libertarians have had with state-controlled public schooling? What have been the libertarian voices on the benefits of markets in education? How have these thinkers interacted with law and policy? All of these questions are considered in this important text for those interested in debates over market mechanisms in education and those who are keen to understand how those arguments have changed over time.
This book offers an intellectual history of the libertarian case for markets in education. Currie-Knight tracks the diverse and evolving arguments libertarians have made, with each chapter devoted to a different libertarian thinker, their reasoning and their impact.
What are the issues libertarians have had with state-controlled public schooling? What have been the libertarian voices on the benefits of markets in education? How have these thinkers interacted with law and policy? All of these questions are considered in this important text for those interested in debates over market mechanisms in education and those who are keen to understand how those arguments have changed over time.
Highlights the continued relevance of ideas about markets in education Examines the impact these libertarian thinkers had on education policy Presents the arguments for markets in education
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Kevin Currie-Knight
Themen in »Education in the Marketplace«
Markets in Education Classical liberalism Pro-market approach School vouchers Educational vouchers Economics of education Public education Private education History of thought Education governance Herbert Spencer Matthew Arnold Albert Jay Nock Frank Chodorov Ayn Rand