Conference:
ECER 2000
Format:
Symposium
Session Information
Session 1.21, Education, Education, Education: Capitalism, Socialism and the Third Way
Symposium
Time:
2000-09-21
09:00-11:30
Room:
6.11, DHT
Chair:
Dave Hill
Contribution
In this paper I briefly examine (a) the political context of New Labour's overall policy since their election in May 1997- the situation are they reacting to, in particular the structural and policy legacy they inherited from the previous Conservative governments of 1979-1997. I also examine various claims made about New Labour's ideology. I then set out (b) the Conservative education legacy- the education system in place when the New Labour took power. Here I focus on the any continuities and discontinuities between New Labour and Conservative. In (c) I summarise and analyses ideologically what New Labour has done with respect to education in its first three and a half years in power. I discuss issues of centralisation/ decentralisation, privatisation/ nationalisation; curriculum continuity and change; the marketisation of schooling; the managerialisation and proletarianisation of teachers work; the hierarchicalisation of schooling and the increase in social class inequalities. I conclude with an overall ideological analysis of New Labour's education policy. The analysis is that New Labour is, in essence, intensifying neo-liberalism, glossing this with, yet ultimately subordinating both neo- conservative and social democratic policy. In (e) I briefly contextualise New Labour's education policy by locating it within the bigger picture of overall government policy. In Friday 22 September, I conclude by indicating an alternative democratic socialist/ democratic Marxist education policy.
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