1st Edition

Contesting Neoliberal Education Public Resistance and Collective Advance

Edited By Dave Hill Copyright 2009
294 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

294 Pages
by Routledge

294 Pages
by Routledge

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 equality of access and outcome. This book, written by an impressive international array of scholars and... Read more

1. Preface

Peter McLaren

(University of California, Los Angleles, USA)

2. Introduction

Gustavo Fischman

(Arizona State University, USA)

3. The World Education Forum and the World Social Forum

Juçara Dutra

(President of C.N.T.E. –National Confederation of Education Workers –Brasil )

Carlos Augusto Abicalil

(P.T. Deputy for Education, ex president of C.N.T.E. ) .

4. The Public Services International

Mike Waghorne

(Public Services International)

5 The International Labour Organisation

Ellen Rosskam

(ex-International Labour Organisation)

6. Critical Pedagogy

Peter McLaren

(University of California, Los Angeles)

7. Critical Education for Economic and Social Justice

Dave Hill

(University of Northampton, UK)

8. The Sindh Foundation and EDUcate

Mashhood Rizvi

(The Sindh Foundation, Pakistan)

9. Rethinking Education in the Era of Globalisation

Terry Wrigley

(Glasgow University, Scotland)

10. The Rouge Forum

Rich Gibson

(The Rouge Forum/ San Diego State University, USA)

11. Liberation Theology, the Jesuits and the Spiritual Left

12. Resistance to the GATS

Xavier Bonal

(Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain)

and

Antomi Verger

(Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain)

  

Biography

Dave Hill teaches at the University of Northampton, UK. For twenty years he was a political and labor union leader. He is Founder Editor of The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, www.jceps.com. He co-founded the Hillcole Group of Radical Left Educators with Mike Cole, in 1989, and is Director of the Institute for Education Policy Studies, www.ieps.org.uk.