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]).
Alternatives to Privatizing Public Education and Curriculum: Festschrift in Honor of Dale D. Johnson
1st Edition
Edited
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 ...
Class Consciousness and Education in Sweden: A Marxist Analysis of Revolution in a Social Democracy
1st Edition
By Alpesh Maisuria
May 07, 2019
Emerging from a Marxist perspective, this book focuses on the importance of social class and the role of education broadly in relation to the possibility of revolutionary change in Sweden and beyond. Critically tracing the celebrated so-called ‘Swedish model’ from its inception to its current ...
Career Guidance for Social Justice: Contesting Neoliberalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Tristram Hooley, Ronald G. Sultana, Rie Thomsen
April 15, 2019
This edited collection examines the intersections between career guidance, social justice and neo-liberalism. Contributors offer an original and global discussion of the role of career guidance in the struggle for social justice and evaluate the field from a diverse range of theoretical positions. ...
Female Students and Cultures of Violence in Cities
1st Edition
Edited
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 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
1st Edition
Edited
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 ...
The Gates Foundation and the Future of US “Public” Schools
1st Edition
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By Philip E. Kovacs
February 21, 2012
There has been much public praise for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s efforts to reform public education. However, few scholars have engaged substantively and critically with the organization’s work. While the Gates Foundation is the single largest supporter by far of "choice" initiatives ...
Contesting Neoliberal Education: Public Resistance and Collective Advance
1st Edition
Edited
By Dave Hill
October 05, 2011
Neoliberal education policies have privatised, marketised, decentralized, controlled and surveilled, managed according to the business and control principles of new public managerialism, attacked the rights and conditions of education workers, and resulted in a loss of democracy, critique and ...
Global Neoliberalism and Education and its Consequences
1st Edition
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By Dave Hill, Ravi Kumar
October 05, 2011
In this groundbreaking critique of neoliberalism in schooling and education, an international cast of education policy analysts, educational activists and scholars deftly analyze the ideologies underlying the global, national and local neoliberalisation of schooling and education. &...
The Developing World and State Education: Neoliberal Depredation and Egalitarian Alternatives
1st Edition
Edited
By Dave Hill, Ellen Rosskam
October 05, 2011
Neoliberalism has had a major impact on schooling and education in the Developing World, with social repercussions that have affected the salaries of teachers, the number and type of potential students, the availability of education, the cost of education, and more. This edited collection argues ...