Bøger i Routledge Studies in Education, Neoliberalism, and Marxism serien

Every day, children living in low-income communities have no choice but to grow up in a climate where they experience multiple unending assaults to their sense of dignity. This volume applies theoretical and historical insights to think through the increasingly undignified realities of life in economically marginalized communities. It includes examples of curricular challenges that low-income students in the US confront today while attempting to learn.

What are the implications for a public system as control over educational policy and priority is concentrated under one of the richest people on the planet in ways that foster de-unionization and teacher de-skilling while homogenizing school models and curriculum? This book addresses this question.

Neoliberal education policies have privatised, marketised, decentralized, controlled and surveilled, managed according to the business and control principles of public managerialism. This book explores the mechanisms and ideologies behind neoliberal education, while evaluating and promoting resistance on a local, national and global level.

Neoliberalism has had a major impact on schooling and education in the Developing World. This collection examines aspects of neoliberal arguments focusing on low- and middle-income countries (including Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela, China, Pakistan, India, Turkey, Burkina Faso, Mozambique and South Africa), and suggest where they fall short.

Presents a critique of neoliberalised education - privatization, marketisation, public managerialism, increasing control and surveillance of schools and colleges - in eight of the rich countries of the world: USA, Canada, England and Wales, Finland, Greece, Taiwan, Israel, and Japan.

Analyzes the ideologies underlying the global, national and local neoliberalisation of schooling and education. This title explains the machinations, agenda and impacts of the privatising and 'merchandisation' of education by the World Bank, the General Agreement on Trade in Services, and the political spectrum of Neoliberal governments.