Table of Contents

Foreword Dave Hill 1. Introduction Ellen Rosskam 2. Neoliberalism and Education in Latin America: Entrenched Problems, Emerging Alternatives Adam Davidson-Harden and Daniel Schugurensky 3. World Bank and the Privatization of Public Education: A Mexican Perspective Gian Carlo Delgado-Ramos and John Saxe-Fernández 4. Argentina: Growth, Height, and Crisis of Teachers’ Opposition to Neoliberal Reforms 1991-2001 Julián Gindin 5. Venezuela: Higher Education, Neoliberalism and Socialism Thomas Muhr and Antoni Verger 6. Legacy Against Possibility: 25 Years of Neo-liberal Policy in Chile Jill Pinkney Pastrana 7. A Class Perspective on the New Actors and Their Demands from the Turkish Education System Fuat Ercan and Ferda Uzunyayla 8. The Neo-Liberalization of Education Services (Not Including Higher Education): Impacts on Workers’ Socio-Economic Security, Access to Services, Democratic Accountability and Equity: A Case Study of Pakistan Ahmad Mukhtar 9. State, Inequality and Politics of Capital: The Neoliberal Scourge in Education Ravi Kumar 10. Global and Neoliberal Forces at Work in Education in Burkina Faso: The Resistance of Education Workers Touorouzou Hervé Somé 11. From “Abjectivity” to Subjectivity: Education Research and Resistance in South Africa Salim Vally, Enver Motala and Brian Ramadiro 12. Mozambique: Neocolonialism and the Remasculinization of Democracy João M. Paraskeva 13. From the State to the Market? China’s Education at a Crossroads Ka Ho Mok and Yat Wai Lo