Contesting Neoliberal Education: Public Resistance And Collective Advance

Hill, Dave (Editor)

ISBN 10: 041595777X / ISBN 13: 9780415957779

Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2008

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1st edition. 276 pages. 9.25x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Contesting Neoliberal Education: Public Resistance And Collective Advance
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041595777X
• ISBN 13: 9780415957779
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.56 kilograms

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Synopsis

Neoliberal education policies have privatised, marketised, decentralized, controlled and surveilled, managed according to the business and control principles of new public managerialism, attacked the rights and conditions of education workers, and resulted in a loss of democracy, critique and equality of access and outcome. This book, written by an impressive international array of scholars and activists, explores the mechanisms and ideologies behind neoliberal education, while evaluating and promoting resistance on a local, national and global level.

Chapters examine the activities and impacts of the arguably socialist revolution in Venezuela, the Porto Alegre democratic community experimental model in Brazil, the activities of the Rouge Forum of democratic socialist teachers and educators in the USA, Public Service International, resistance movements against the GATS (General Agreement on Trade in Services), and trade union and social movement and community/parental opposition to neoliberal education policies in Britain and in Latin America.

About the Author

Dave Hill teaches at the University of Northampton, UK. For twenty years he was a political and labor union leader. He is Founder Editor of The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, www.jceps.com. He co-founded the Hillcole Group of Radical Left Educators with Mike Cole, in 1989, and is Director of the Institute for Education Policy Studies, www.ieps.org.uk.