The Profit Motive In Education

Author : James B. Stanfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0255366469

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The Profit Motive in Education by James B. Stanfield Pdf

The UK government in common with the governments of many Western countries is in the midst of implementing policies to reform education. However, the government has, as a matter of principle, decided that profit-making schools cannot provide state-funded education even if they would lead to substantial improvements in quality. This monograph makes the case for widespread acceptance of the profit motive in education. It does so not by presenting statistics that demonstrate that profit-making organisations could drive up quality there is already a substantial literatureon this. Instead, the authors show how profit-making organisations could create an entirely new dynamic of entrepreneurship and innovation. As well as improving quality and reducing costs within existing models, such an approach could lead to the development of completely new ways ofproviding education. The authors of this monograph have a range of international experience. Many of them have run profit-making schools in countries more accepting of the profit motive than the UK, suchas Sweden. Others have struggled against the odds to participate in education reform programmes in the UK. Overall, this collection makes an important contribution to the international debate about education reform

Author : Charles Sauer
Publisher : SelectBooks, Inc.
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781590794760

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Profit Motive by Charles Sauer Pdf

Most businesses are driven to maximize profit, but what does this drive really mean in action? In Profit Motive: What Drives the Things We Do economist Charles Sauer makes the case that identifying your own and others’ “Profit Motives” provides the foundation for running a successful business, being an effective leader, a good consumer, and getting what you really want out of life. In this highly praised new treatise on economic behavior, Sauer examines how businesses make decisions in pricing and employment and how the search for long-term profit can mean adopting practices that may seem contrary to fundamental capitalist principles. But the Profit Motive analysis goes well beyond the realm of finance and corporate decision-making to explain how gaining a profit, or a benefit, is the motivating force behind an endless array of choices made by everyone from large organizations to individuals and their families―and everything in between.

Author : Stephen M. Bainbridge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781009027106

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The Profit Motive by Stephen M. Bainbridge Pdf

What responsibility, if any, does a corporation have to society? How should corporations balance environmental, social, and governance factors? The Profit Motive addresses these questions of corporate purpose using historical, legal, and economic perspectives. Stephen M. Bainbridge enters the debate around corporate social responsibility to mount an unabashed defense of shareholder capitalism and maximizing shareholder value. The book offers context for the current questions about corporate purpose, and provides a reference going forward. Direct and corrective, The Profit Motive argues that shareholder value maximization is not only required by law, but what the law ought to require.

Author : Niklas Elert,Magnus Henrekson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1388632501

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The Profit Motive in the Classroom by Niklas Elert,Magnus Henrekson Pdf

Can competition and the existence of profit-seeking actors in the school market improve educational quality? To see cost-efficient, long-term improvements, we identify the school system's capacity for knowledge-enhancing innovation as crucial and explore this question by examining Swedish tax-financed schooling. The Swedish school system was marketized in the early 1990s to an unparalleled degree but has only seen modest (if any) educational gains. This lack of progress is puzzling considering evidence from regular markets that competition and the presence of for-profit actors should spur innovation. Our analysis suggests that these factors are necessary but not sufficient conditions for innovation, tracing the obstacles to innovation in the Swedish school quasi-market to three sub-par institutional conditions. Together, they result in a significant epistemic problem, which impedes the beneficial effects of competition and the profit-motive. First, the view of knowledge (institutionalized in national curricula) does not entrust teachers with a real, knowledge-promoting mission. Second, the design of the grading system makes grades unreliable measures of knowledge, making it difficult for schools to compete and for users to choose along this dimension. Third, the information provided to users is insufficient and overly complicated, meaning user choice is less informed than it should be. Institutional reforms that improve actors' epistemic positions along these margins could improve the situation, paving the way for innovation and long-term improvements.

Author : Bradford H. Gray
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Economics, Hospital
ISBN : 0674713389

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The Profit Motive and Patient Care by Bradford H. Gray Pdf

In this penetrating analysis, Bradford Gray tackles the thorny issues surrounding the question of to whom and for what our physicians and hospitals are accountable. This book provides a careful evaluation of the mechanisms of accountability that have developed along with a growing profit orientation of health care, and it alerts us to keep a sharp eye focused on who is looking out for the interests of the patient.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Educational planning
ISBN : UIUC:30112012404478

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Needs of Elementary and Secondary Education for the Seventies by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Arthur
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781315445625

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Policy Entrepreneurship in Education by James Arthur Pdf

Policy Entrepreneurship in Education aims to build the confidence and skills of education academics in securing higher impact for their work. It offers guidance and identifies methods of capturing and measuring impact, as well as practical advice in helping academics engage policy makers and influence society with their research. Written specifically for the field of education, the book utilises domestic and international examples to illustrate those policy entrepreneurship activities which advance impact and appeal to international audiences, who are increasingly concerned with how higher education studies in education can make a difference on the ground. Combining theory and practice, the book employs a practical approach to doing policy entrepreneurship. It is a unique offering that will appeal to all who have an academic or practical interest in policy change and how to affect this.

Author : ivan hugh walters
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1440176973

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Education and Cultural Politics by ivan hugh walters Pdf

Education and Cultural Politics: Interrogating Idiotic Education is a conceptualization of protest and resistance against the cultural politics of oppression and domination of people of African descent in the Caribbean and North America. It is also a theorization of their redemption from being victims of racism, classism, sexism, and heterosexism. The book combines the theoretical models of discrimination and oppression through the use of the axis of the social evils to critically analyze the cultural politics of education in relation to black people in the African Diaspora. It does this through the lens of critical redemptive education which is seen through an Afrocentric philosophy. The book illustrates how the lives of black people are constructed by slavery and colonialism which have etched their mores into the black psyche. The book advocates the view that slavocracy, the colonial construction of black psyche, is not indelible. It can be deconstructed through conscience and reconstructed through a non-idiotic, liberatory education using the philosophy of critical redemptive education which fosters a genuine koinonia among black communities serving as the antidote for the current black nihilism in black communities which is the legacy of our oppressive existence.

Author : Kenneth J. Saltman
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781452961040

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The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance by Kenneth J. Saltman Pdf

How “innovative” finance schemes skim public wealth while hijacking public governance Charter school expansion. Vouchers. Scholarship tax credit programs. The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance offers a new social theory to explain why these and other privatization policies and programs win support despite being unsupported by empirical evidence. Kenneth J. Saltman details how, under the guise of innovation, cost savings, and corporate social responsibility, new and massive neoliberal educational privatization schemes have been widely adopted in the United States. From a trillion-dollar charter school bubble to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to celebrities branding private schools, Saltman ultimately connects such schemes to the country’s current crisis of truth and offers advice for resistance. Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Tigran Aivazian
Page : 1477 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The British Study Edition of the Urantia Papers Book [A4 PDF] by Anonim Pdf

Author : Terry Edwards,Carl Parsons
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781789044317

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How to Dismantle the English State Education System in 10 Easy Steps by Terry Edwards,Carl Parsons Pdf

Terry Edwards and Carl Parsons tell the story of the takeover of England’s schools by the super-efficient, modernising, academising machine, which, in collaboration with a dynamic, forward-looking government is recasting the educational landscape. England’s school system is turbo-charged into a new era and will be the envy of the world, led by Chief Executives of Multi Academy Trusts on bankers’ salaries, imposing a slim curriculum, the soundest of discipline regimes and ensuring that highest standards will be achieved even if at the expense of teacher morale, poor service to special needs, off-rolling of students and despite an absolute lack of evidence that this privatised system works.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1196 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Educational equalization
ISBN : IND:30000090716097

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Equal Educational Opportunity 1971 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Shirley R. Steinberg,Barry Down
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 2395 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781526486479

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The SAGE Handbook of Critical Pedagogies by Shirley R. Steinberg,Barry Down Pdf

**Winner of a 2022 American Educational Studies Association Critics′ Choice Book Award** This extensive Handbook brings together different aspects of critical pedagogy in order to open up a clear international conversation on the subject, as well as pushing the boundaries of current understanding by extending the notion of a pedagogy to multiple pedagogies and perspectives. Bringing together contributing authors from around the globe, chapters provide a unique approach and insight to the discipline by crossing a range of disciplines and articulating common philosophical and social themes. Chapters are organised across three volumes and twelve core thematic sections: Part 1: Social Theories of Critical Pedagogy Part 2: Seminal Figures in Critical Pedagogy Part 3: Transnational Perspectives and Critical Pedagogy Part 4: Indigenous Perspectives and Critical Pedagogy Part 5: On Education Part 6: In Classrooms Part 7: Critical Community Praxis Part 8: Reading Critical Pedagogy, Reading Paulo Freire Part 9: Communication, Media and Popular Culture Part 10: Arts and Aesthetics Part 11: Critical Youth Pedagogies Part 12: Technoscience, Ecology and Wellness The SAGE Handbook of Critical Pedagogies is an essential benchmark publication for advanced students, researchers and practitioners across a wide range of disciplines including education, health, sociology, anthropology and development studies

Author : Deborah Philips,Garry Whannel
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781472508386

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The Trojan Horse by Deborah Philips,Garry Whannel Pdf

The Trojan Horse traces the growth of commercial sponsorship in the public sphere since the 1960s, its growing importance for the arts since 1980 and its spread into areas such as education and health. The authors' central argument is that the image of sponsorship as corporate benevolence has served to routinize and legitimate the presence of commerce within the public sector. The central metaphor is of such sponsorship as a Trojan Horse helping to facilitate the hollowing out of the public sector by private agencies and private finance. The authors place the study in the context of the more general colonization of the state by private capital and the challenge posed to the dominance of neo-liberal economics by the recent global financial crisis. After considering the passage from patronage to sponsorship and outlining the context of the post-war public sector since 1945, it analyses sponsorship in relation to Thatcherism, enterprise culture and the restructuring of public provision during the 1980s. It goes on to examine the New Labour years, and the ways in which sponsorship has paved the way for the increased use of private-public partnerships and private finance initiatives within the public sector in the UK.

Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2834 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:35112104227170

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Hearings by United States. Congress. House Pdf