Anglia Ruskin Research Online (ARRO)
Browse
Class Struggle and Education.pdf (310.4 kB)

Class Struggle and Education: Neoliberalism, (Neo)-conservatism, and the Capitalist Assault on Public Education

Download (310.4 kB)
journal contribution
posted on 2023-07-26, 13:36 authored by Dave Hill
In this article I examine the nexus, the mutually reinforcing connection between neoliberal and neoconservative ideology and social and political forces, and variation between countries such as Britain, the USA and Turkey. This analysis is then applied in particular to neoliberal/ neoconservative education 'reform' in England, focusing on marketisation, high-stakes testing, privatization and pre-privatisation, and the increased surveillance of teachers as a result of new public managerialism in education, as reinforced and enforced by the school inspection system. These effects are then related to the lived work experiences of specific teachers, using their own word. I conclude the article by examining and calling for resistance, for teachers and critical education workers to educate, agitate and organize in various arenas, and to consider the importance of political programme- in particular to consider the utility of the transitional programme as advanced by Trotsky.

History

Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

4

Issue number

10

Publication title

Critical Education

ISSN

1920-4175

Publisher

Institute for Critical Education Studies

File version

  • Published version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2015-03-10

Legacy creation date

2019-05-24

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Faculty of Health, Social Care & Education (until September 2018)

Usage metrics

    ARU Outputs

    Categories

    No categories selected

    Exports

    RefWorks
    BibTeX
    Ref. manager
    Endnote
    DataCite
    NLM
    DC