Session Information
23 SES 09 B, The National Faces of Neoliberalism in Education in Rich and Developing Countries
Symposium
Time:
2009-09-30
10:30-12:00
Room:
HG, HS 7
Chair:
Dave Hill
Discussant:
Jill Pinkney Pastrana
Contribution
This paper starts from the premise that mass education under capitalism requires both the production of productive skills (human resources) and the socialisation of conformist citizens, even though these aims can sometimes be contradictory. It seeks to explain recent school policy in England, an epicentre of neo-liberal reform, in terms of both the desire to align education much more closely to perceived economic requirements, without 'waste', and the need to hinder the development of active democratic engagement in an age of multiple global crisis (poverty, environment, war). The role of the state within a neo-liberal economic formation is discussed, with particular regard to school privatisation, as well as reasons why this policy direction, though evident, is not dominant in Scotland.
The paper will then outline some principles for rethinking schooling, using the concepts of voice and agency in the fields of school organisation, curriculum and pedagogy, referring to international examples. Discussion will be encouraged on both the key tenets of this argument, and European comparisons.
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