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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453700703321

Titolo

Global neoliberalism and education and its consequences [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Dave Hill and Ravi Kumar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2009

ISBN

1-135-90652-1

1-281-79676-X

9786611796761

0-203-89185-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in education and neoliberalism ; ; 3

Altri autori (Persone)

HillDave <1945->

KumarRavi <1975->

Disciplina

338.4/337

370.115

Soggetti

Education - Economic aspects

Education and globalization

Neoliberalism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Neoliberal Capitalism and Education; 2 Neoliberalism and Its Impacts; 3 Neoliberalism, Youth, and the Leasing of Higher Education; 4 Higher Education and the Profit Incentive; 5 Trading Away Human Rights?: The GATS and the Right to Education; 6 Education, Inequality and Neoliberal Capitalism: A Classical Marxist Analysis; 7 Brazilian Education, Dependent Capitalism, and the World Bank; 8 World Bank Discourse and Policy on Education and Cultural Diversity for Latin America

9 The News Media and the Conservative Heritage Foundation: Promoting Education Advocacy at the Expense of Authority10 Markets and Education in the Era of Globalized Capitalism; 11 Education in Cuba: Socialism and the Encroachment of Capitalism; Contributors; Index



Sommario/riassunto

In this groundbreaking critique of neoliberalism in schooling and education, an international cast of education policy analysts, educational activists and scholars deftly analyze the ideologies underlying the global, national and local neoliberalisation of schooling and education.  The thrilling scholarship that makes up Global Neoliberalism and Education and its Consequences exposes the machinations, agenda and impacts of the privatising and 'merchandisation' of education by the World Bank, the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), biased think tanks, global and national