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Class Struggle and Education: Neoliberalism, (Neo)-conservatism, and the Capitalist Assault on Public Education
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posted on 2023-07-26, 13:36 authored by Dave HillIn 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.
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4Issue number
10Publication title
Critical EducationISSN
1920-4175External DOI
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Institute for Critical Education StudiesFile version
- Published version
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- eng
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