Resisting Neoliberalism in Education
Local, National and Transnational Perspectives
Author: Kathleen Lynch, Carlos Vargas-Tamez, Lesley Hagger-Vaughan, Emily Winchip, Alison Milner, Howard Stevenson, Pamela Osmond, Keiko Yasukawa, Pia Cort and Anne Larson
Neoliberalism is having a detrimental impact on wider social and ethical goals in the field of education. Using an international range of contexts, this book provides practical examples that demonstrate how neoliberalism can be challenged and changed at the local, national and transnational level.
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Neoliberalism is having a detrimental impact on wider social and ethical goals in the field of education. Using an international range of contexts, this book provides practical examples that demonstrate how neoliberalism can be challenged and changed at the local, national and transnational level.
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Neoliberalism has been widely criticised because of its role in prioritising 'free markets' as the optimum way of solving problems and organising society. In the field of education, this leads to an emphasis on the knowledge economy to the detriment of wider social and ethical goals in ways that reduce both persons and education to solely economic actors.
Drawing on an international range of contexts across informal, adult, school and university settings, this book provides innovative examples that show how neoliberalism in education can be challenged and changed at the local, national and transnational levels in order to foster a more democratic culture.
'Mary Hamilton and Lyn Tett's edition makes a most insightful contribution to our understanding of neoliberal education as well as how to resist it.' - Australian Universities Review
'The book is full of detailed evidence and of examples from everyday life... Pettinger shows, work is highly diverse, and the many different kinds of work are complicatedly interconnected.' - Citizen's Basic Income
Critic Reviews
“''The book highlights the pathologies of education under the regime of neoliberalism, it also contains a raft of ideas. Hamilton and Tett's edition makes a most insightful contribution to our understanding of neoliberal education as well as how to resist it.''”
“This book brings together an impressive international group of researchers to focus on challenging neoliberalism in education. I would recommend this book not only for the ideas it discusses, but also for the practices of resistance the authors detail in depth.” Leona M. English, St. Francis Xavier University
About the Author
Lyn Tett is Professor of Community Education at the University of Huddersfield and Professor Emerita at the University of Edinburgh.
Mary Hamilton is Professor Emerita of Adult Learning and Literacy in the Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University.
Neoliberalism has been widely criticised because of its role in prioritising 'free markets' as the optimum way of solving problems and organising society. In the field of education, this leads to an emphasis on the knowledge economy to the detriment of wider social and ethical goals in ways that reduce both persons and education to solely economic actors. Drawing on an international range of contexts across informal, adult, school and university settings, this book provides innovative examples that show how neoliberalism in education can be challenged and changed at the local, national and transnational levels in order to foster a more democratic culture. ' Mary Hamilton and Lyn Tett's edition makes a most insightful contribution to our understanding of neoliberal education as well as how to resist it.' -- Australian Universities Review 'The book is full of detailed evidence and of examples from everyday life... Pettinger shows, work is highly diverse, and the many different kinds of work are complicatedly interconnected.' -- Citizen's Basic Income
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