Session Information
23 SES 13 C (JS), Schooling and Education after Neo-Liberalism
Symposium, Joint Session NW 14 and NW 23
Contribution
Amidst a financial crisis that has shifted politics to conservative market-driven ideologies and policies, specific major changes are suggested by the Greek Ministry of Education for primary, secondary and higher education. With the gradual disappearance of public space and of the welfare state, under the pressure and the auspices of the IMF, education consists of one more space quickly geared up towards privatization, marketization of learning and educational goals with market interests. I will analyze these proposed changes and deconstruct the ‘neutral’ language in public discourse that makes the changes appear as common sense (a critical discourse analysis of the covert language of neoliberalism from the officials of the Greek ministry of education). The current crisis of politics in Greece is a pedagogical challenge. But to address the question “what kind of education we would need” we must first ask “what kind of democracy do we need,” what kind of politics we want, and through what processes it comes into life. To explore the form of education that undergirds all democratic practices in a given society the arguments of Castoriadis (1991) will be drawn upon. Castoriadis, C. 1991. Philosophy, Politics, Autonomy. David Ames Curtis (Ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. .
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