1st Edition
Neoliberalism and Education
1. Introduction: Neoliberalism is dead—Long live neoliberalism
Bronwen M.A. Jones and Stephen J. Ball
2. Explaining (with) neoliberalism
Jamie Peck
3. Neoliberalization, uneven development, and Brexit: further reflections on the organic crisis of the British state and society
Bob Jessop
4. Neoliberalism, urbanism and the education economy: producing Hyderabad as a ‘global city’
Sangeeta Kamat
5. Neoliberalism and the demise of public education: the corporatization of schools of education
Marta Baltodano
6. Fixing contradictions of education commercialisation: Pearson plc and the construction of its efficacy brand
Curtis B. Riep
7. ‘Make money, get money’: how two autonomous schools have commercialised their services
Jessica Holloway and Amanda Keddie
8. Care of the self, resistance and subjectivity under neoliberal governmentalities
Stephen J. Ball and Antonio Olmedo
9. Nuancing the critique of commercialisation in schools: recognising teacher agency
Anne Hogan, Eimear Enright, Michael Stylianou and Louise McCuaig
10. Students as consumers? A counter perspective from student assessment as a disciplinary technology
Rille Raaper
11. Preoccupied with the self: towards self-responsible, enterprising, flexible and self-centered subjectivity in education
Kristiina Brunila and Päivi Siivonen
Biography
Bronwen M.A. Jones received her PhD from University College London, Institute of Education, UK, in 2020. Her thesis entitled Educating the Neoliberal Whole Child: A Genealogical Approach was published by Routledge in 2021. She spent a number of years as a Postgraduate Tutor on BA and MA programmes and continues to research and write on the construction of the child in neoliberal education policy.
Stephen J. Ball is Emeritus Professor of Sociology of Education at the University College London, Institute of Education, UK. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2006 and is also Fellow of the Society of Educational Studies and a Laureate of Kappa Delta Phi; he has honorary doctorates from the Universities of Turku, Finland, and Leicester. He is co-founder of the Journal of Education Policy.
