Routledge Studies in Education, Neoliberalism, and Marxism
About the Book Series
Neoliberalism is degrading and destroying public education systems globally. The local characteristics may vary, the results are common - increased inequalities in schooling, vocational and higher education, inferior work conditions for teachers and faculty, and detheorized and technicized delivery systems of increasing conservative curricula at all levels of education. Neoliberalism - marketization, privatization, pre-privatization, commodification - is increasingly accompanied by forms of authoritarian conservatism - secular in some countries, religious in others - with increased control, surveillance, and forced abandonment of critique. Such neoliberal and conservative assaults on public education and on broader aims than those which are couched purely in terms of economic/human capital - meet with increased resistance by students, teachers, communities, social movements, and in some countries, political parties.
The Routledge Studies in Education, Neoliberalism, and Marxism series features books by new as well as established scholars that throw a harsh spotlight on the conditions under which education currently labors and offers analysis, hope, and resistance in the name of more collective, egalitarian education for social and for economic justice.
Please send inquiries and proposals to: Dave Hill ([email protected] / [email protected]) and Kirsty Murray ([email protected]).
The Impacts of Neoliberal Discourse and Language in Education: Critical Perspectives on a Rhetoric of Equality, Well-Being, and Justice
1st Edition
Edited
By Mitja Sardoč
September 26, 2022
This edited collection combines quantitative content and critical discourse analysis to reveal a shift in the rhetoric used as part of the neoliberal agenda in education. It does so by analysing, uncovering, and commenting on language as a central tool of education. Focussing on vocabulary, ...
Critical Reflections on the Language of Neoliberalism in Education: Dangerous Words and Discourses of Possibility
1st Edition
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By Spyros Themelis
August 01, 2022
Recognizing the dominance of neoliberal forces in education, this volume offers a range of critical essays which analyze the language used to underpin these dynamics. Combining essays from over 20 internationally renowned contributors, this text offers a critical examination of key terms which ...
The Educational Philosophy of Luis Emilio Recabarren: Pioneering Working-Class Education in Latin America
1st Edition
By María Alicia Rueda
August 01, 2022
This text offers a unique philosophical and historical inquiry into the educational vision of Luis Emilio Recabarren, and his pivotal role in securing independent education for Chile’s working classes in the early 20th century. Through close analysis of the textual archives and press writings, The ...
The Impacts of Neoliberalism on US Community Colleges: Reclaiming Faculty Voice in Academic Governance
1st Edition
By Greg Sethares
September 01, 2021
Focusing on community colleges as a unique structure within American higher education, this text investigates the specific ways in which these institutions have been impacted by a global increase in neoliberal education policies. Analyzing the effects neoliberalism has had on community colleges, ...
The Emergence of Postfeminist Identities in Higher Education: Neoliberal Dynamics and the Performance of Gendered Subjectivities
1st Edition
By Eleftheria Atta
May 27, 2021
By drawing on qualitative research conducted in universities in Cyprus, this book presents an account of life in the academy from a feminist perspective. In doing so, the texts uncover new gendered identities emerging as a result of neoliberal and postfeminist discourses in Higher Education. ...
Crisis, Austerity, and New Frameworks for Teaching and Learning: A Pedagogy of Hope for Contemporary Greek Education
1st Edition
By Maria Chalari
December 18, 2020
This book attempts to examine the educational consequences of the recent social and economic situation in Greece, and it explores—on a general level—new possibilities for teaching and learning at times of national crisis. Using Greece as an exemplary case, Maria Chalari demonstrates how the ...
Career Guidance for Emancipation: Reclaiming Justice for the Multitude
1st Edition
Edited
By Tristram Hooley, Ronald Sultana, Rie Thomsen
September 30, 2020
This edited collection explores ways in which social justice can be integrated into career guidance practice. Chapter authors propose models and practices which can contribute to struggles for social justice and consider how career guidance can play a role in these struggles. They explore policy ...
Marxism and Education: International Perspectives on Theory and Action
1st Edition
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By Lotar Rasinski, Dave Hill, Kostas Skordoulis
December 17, 2019
Marxism and Education offers contemporary Marxist analyses of recent and current education policy, and develops Marxist-based practices of resistance from a series of national and international perspectives. Part I identifies and critiques pressure points, impacts of, and developments in capitalism...
Ethnography of a Neoliberal School: Building Cultures of Success
1st Edition
By Garth Stahl
December 10, 2019
As a school ethnography, this book explores the controversial schooling practices and strategies embedded in charter school management organizations (CMOs), as well as how these practices influence teaching and learning, school leadership, teachers’ professional identities, and students’ ...
Film as a Radical Pedagogic Tool
1st Edition
By Deirdre O'Neill
December 10, 2019
Emerging from Inside Film, a project that helps prisoners and people on probation make their own films, this book discusses the need for working class people to represent themselves and challenge mainstream stereotypes and assumptions about them. This project gave prisoners and parolees the ...
Curriculum Epistemicide: Towards An Itinerant Curriculum Theory
1st Edition
By João M. Paraskeva
June 07, 2019
Around the world, curriculum – hard sciences, social sciences and the humanities – has been dominated and legitimated by prevailing Western Eurocentric Anglophone discourses and practices. Drawing from and within a complex range of epistemological perspectives from the Middle East, Africa, Southern...
The Neoliberal Agenda and the Student Debt Crisis in U.S. Higher Education
1st Edition
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By Nicholas Hartlep, Lucille Eckrich, Brandon Hensley
June 04, 2019
Capturing the voices of Americans living with student debt in the United States, this collection critiques the neoliberal interest-driven, debt-based system of U.S. higher education and offers alternatives to neoliberal capitalism and the corporatized university. Grounded in an understanding of the...