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Binary concepts like capitalism and socialism, the market and society, obscure more than they illuminate. A three-way contrast between market-liberal, social-democratic, and Confucian approaches to education policy in English-speaking countries, northern Europe, and East Asia allows nuances. Understanding resistance in terms of ideological battles over essentially contested concepts allows nuanced analysis of the history of educational institutions. A Labor government hoped that My School would make a competitive labour force and allow a fairer distribution of education funding. In Australia, strategic unionism has tied workplace democracy together with social justice and a wider social-democratic agenda. Interviews at schools revealed that strategic unionism has mostly failed to decontest the neoliberal disdain for unions but has somewhat succeeded at recontesting authoritarian management within neoliberal education policies.
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Vandenberg, A. (2018). Conclusions. In: Education Policy and the Australian Education Union. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68047-7_6
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