Education, Democracy and Discourse

Knud Jensen is Associate Professor at The Danish University of Education, Copenhagen. He has led several contract action research projects and has an international reputation for his work on educational innovation; he is very well know in Scandinavia for his writing and for his educational and political activism. Knud Jensen lectures in educational theory, educational sociology and anthropology. Stephen Walker is a Reader in the Sociology of Education, and Visiting Professor in the Science of Education, University of Bari, Italy.

• 1 Education, Discourse and the Modernisation of the State 2 Discourse and Change in Education 3 Democratisation and Schooling4 Work, Education and Democratisation 5 Teaching and Regulatory Reform 6 Democratic Action Research in Education 7 International Perspectives and the Work of the Teacher 8 Modernisation and Teacher Status 9 Managerialism and the Management of Teaching 10 Education and the Discourse of Standards References Index