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]).
The Gates Foundation and the Future of US “Public” Schools
1st Edition
Edited
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
Edited
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 ...
The Rich World and the Impoverishment of Education: Diminishing Democracy, Equity and Workers' Rights
1st Edition
Edited
By Dave Hill
October 05, 2011
Advancing a powerful critique of neoliberalized education in many of the rich countries of the world (USA, Canada, Finland, Greece, Israel, Japan, England and Wales, and others), the chapters in this book, written by an international array of acclaimed and emerging radical educators and policy ...