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 Hardwick ([email protected]).
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. ...
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...
Alternatives to Privatizing Public Education and Curriculum: Festschrift in Honor of Dale D. Johnson
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By Daniel Ness, Stephen J. Farenga
May 17, 2019
Through conversations in honor of Dale D. Johnson, this book takes a critical view of the monoculture in curriculum and policy that has developed in education with the increase of federal funding and privatization of services for public education, and examines the shift from public interest and ...
Female Students and Cultures of Violence in Cities
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By Julia Hall
May 18, 2017
As the economy constricts, it seems living with a chronic sense of fear and anxiety is the new normal for a growing number of urban females. Many females are susceptible to victimization by cumulative strands of violence in school, their communities, families and partnerships. Exposure to violence ...
Neoliberal Education Reform: Gendered Notions in Global and Local Contexts
1st Edition
By Sarah A. Robert
May 18, 2017
The restructuring of teaching is a global issue, the result of a transnational movement of policy. Gender shapes the occupational reform and binds the global-to-the-local movement of reform ideas. Gender is also implicated in how policy is done and how it leads to particular outcomes. This volume ...
Colonized Schooling Exposed: Progressive Voices for Transformative Educational and Social Change
1st Edition
By Pierre Wilbert Orelus, Curry Malott, Romina Pacheco
November 18, 2016
This book presents a novel perspective on neocolonialism, education and other related issues. It unveils the effects of neocolonialism on the learning and well-being of students and workers, including marginalized groups such as Native Americans, Latino/as, and African Americans. It is a collection...
Hegemony and Education Under Neoliberalism: Insights from Gramsci
1st Edition
By Peter Mayo
November 18, 2016
Based in a holistic exposition and appraisal of Gramsci’s writings that are of relevance to education in neoliberal times, this book--rather than simply applying Gramsci's theories to issues in education--argues that education constitutes the leitmotif of his entire oeuvre and lies at the heart of ...
Underprivileged School Children and the Assault on Dignity: Policy Challenges and Resistance
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By Julia Hall
November 18, 2016
Every day, children living in low-income communities have no choice but to grow up in a climate where they experience multiple unending assaults to their sense of dignity. This volume applies theoretical and historical insights to think through the increasingly undignified realities of life in ...