Overview
- This book provides a range of tangible examples that highlight the detrimental effects of neoliberal education policies and the negative impacts they have on the professional lives and work of educators
- The authors offer a range of conceptual and theoretical insights and analyses that highlight the weaknesses and limitations inherent within the neoliberal education project, and illustrates the danger in following the prevailing hegemonic discourse
- The book challenges the common assumption that the neoliberal project is a monolithic orthodoxy by highlighting its complexities, variations and contradictions and the ways policies are refracted through action and in practice; the collected chapters outline a range of historical, alternative educational approaches, systems and discourse that may well provide the seedbed for reimagined and reorganised educational futures
Part of the book series: Studies in Professional Life and Work (SPLW, volume 3)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The various chapterschallenge the common assumption that the neoliberal project is a monolithic orthodoxy by highlighting its complexities, variations and contradictions in the ways policies are refracted through action and practice in different contexts. The book also challenges the common assumption that there are no viable alternatives to neoliberal education policies, and does so by presenting a range of different examples, theoretical perspectives, discourses and alternative practices. It is argued that such alternatives not only highlight the range of different approaches, choices and possibilities but also provide the seedbed for a reimagined educational future.
The authors offer a range of conceptual and theoretical insights and analyses that highlight the weaknesses and limitations inherent within the neoliberal education project and also illustrate the dangers in following the prevailing hegemonic discourse and trajectories. It is postulated that alternative educational approaches warrant greater and urgent attention because history suggests that rather than having weathered the recent economic crisis, we may well be witnessing the long tail of decline for the neoliberal project.
This book will be useful for educators, researchers, students and policy makers interested in the detrimental effects of neoliberal education, the range of viable alternatives, and the routes to resistance and ways of reimagining alternative educational futures."
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Negotiating Neoliberalism
Book Subtitle: Developing Alternative Educational Visions
Editors: Tim Rudd, Ivor F. Goodson
Series Title: Studies in Professional Life and Work
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-854-9
Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-854-9Published: 28 January 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 210
Topics: Education, general