Ebook: New Managerialism in Education: Commercialization, Carelessness and Gender

KATHLEEN LYNCH Professor of Equality Studies and a founding member of the Equality Studies Centre and the School of Social Justice at University College Dublin, Ireland. She is the author of The Hidden Curriculum and Equality in Education and co-author of Schools and Society in Ireland, Equality and Power in Schools, Inside Classrooms, Equality and Affective Equality, Who Cares?.
BERNIE GRUMMELL Lecturer in the Departments of Education and Adult & Community Education in National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland.
DYMPNA DEVINE Director of the Social Science Research Centre in the College of Human Sciences, University College Dublin, Ireland. she has previously published Immigration and Schooling in the Republic of Ireland.

Review
'This major ground-breaking study of the impact of new managerialism on schools and universities should be read by every teacher and lecturer. It reflexively and insightfully analyses the growing neo-liberal culture within Irish education, revealing disturbing gender and care implications for contemporary leadership.' - Diane Reay, Professor of Education, University of Cambridge, UK 'New Managerialism in Education restores and reinvigorates a feminist analysis of gender inequality and injustice in education - bringing attention to the corrosive effects of the devaluation of care relations and care work and giving them the centrality they deserve. The authors go beyond analyzing the persistence of male domination in top-level positions of power in the education sector, itself a welcomed contribution. The book peels away and exposes care-less forms of education - how constant appraisal, performance and productivity measures and standards, and surveillance are antithetical to the core work of teaching and learning which pivots around socio-emotional aspects of human relations like love, care and solidarity. The book is essential reading for putting heart and soul back into a critique of contemporary educational reform.' - Wendy Luttrell, Professor of Urban Education, Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA 'Kathleen Lynch, Bernie Grummell and Dympna Devine provide an insightful qualitative study that sheds light on the gendered nature of senior appointments in education. The research is rigorous, convincing, extensive and intensive. Policy makers and all those concerned with equality in education should consider this a 'must read.' In its copious coverage and exposition of the gender bias, and other biases, of the conditions governing selection procedures and their encoded values, this book provides a timely eye-opener for policy makers in Ireland and other countries. A particular kind of managerialism, with claims to being 'fair', has been afoot for quite some time. Alarmingly, it has been touted as the 'way to go' in various countries. This study from and centred on Ireland exposes this managerialism's Neoliberal ideological and technical-rational underpinnings which can have deleterious effects on the quality of persons' lives, notably the lives of educational leaders.' - Peter Mayo, Professor of Education, University of Malta, Malta 'New Managerialism in Education should be compulsory reading for those in the education sector in particular and policy-making more generally. It chronicles how we have got to where we are during the Celtic Tiger years, and challenges to re-think quality education, and the qualities of its leadership, in the creation of a better future for all. A most apposite must read for our times.' - Ciaran Sugrue, Professor of Education, University College Dublin, Ireland 'This book provides important new perspectives on the impact of 'New Managerialism' on education. While other texts have addressed its impact on teacher professionalism, this volume extends the debate to focus on its implications for gender, specifically but not exclusively in Ireland. Their comment that men can be 'carefree', while women remain as 'default carers', is a valuable contribution to the ongoing debate about the place of women as educational leaders. They are also right to claim that 'New Managerialism' is not gender neutral and affects women more than men. The book offers a powerful analysis of how the increasingly performance-driven context makes it more difficult for women to combine care and family with the demands of leadership.' - Tony Bush Professor of Educational Leadership University of Warwick, UK