Educational Partnerships and the State: The Paradoxes of Governing Schools, Children, and Families:

Introduction: Educational Partnerships: An Introductory Framework B.M.Franklin ; M.Bloch & T.S.Popkewitz PART I: PARTNERSHIPS AND CHANGING PATTERNS OF GOVERNING Partnerships: The Social Pact and Changing Systems of Reasoning a Comparative Perspectives; T.S.Popkewitz Partnership as a Floating and Empty Signifier within Educational Policies: The Mexican Case; R.Buenfil Burgos PART II: BETWEEN THE STATE, CIVIL SOCIETY, AND EDUCATION Partnerships in a Cold Climate: The Case of Britain; B.M.Franklin & G.McCulloch Educational Action Zones: Model Partnerships; M.Dickson , S.Gewirtz , D.Halpin , S.Power & G.Whitty Partnerships-The Community Context in Miami; M.Y.Baber & K.M.Borman with J.Avery & E.Amador PART III: SCHOOL REFORM AND PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS The Public-Private Nexus in Education; H.M.Levin Governance and Accountability in the Michigan Partnership for New Education: Reconstructing Democratic Participation; L.Fendler PART IV: GOVERNING AS A PROBLEM OF INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION Partnerships and Parents: Issues of Sex and Gender in Policy and Practice; M.E.David Partnering to Serve and Save the Child with Potential: Re-examining Salvation Narratives within one University-School-Community 'Service-Learning' Project; M.Bloch , I.Fang Lee , & R.L.Peach