1st Edition

The Impacts of Neoliberal Discourse and Language in Education Critical Perspectives on a Rhetoric of Equality, Well-Being, and Justice

Edited By Mitja Sardoč Copyright 2021
246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

This edited collection combines quantitative content and critical discourse analysis to reveal a shift in the rhetoric used as part of the neoliberal agenda in education. It does so by analysing, uncovering, and commenting on language as a central tool of education. Focussing on vocabulary, metaphors, and slogans used in strategy documents, advertising, policy, and public discourse, the text... Read more

Chapter 1. The Language of Neoliberalism in Education
Mitja Sardoč

Chapter 2. Politics by the Numbers
Theodore M. Porter

Chapter 3. Playing on Two Tables: Advertising and Science in OECD’s Educational Rhetoric
Vasco d’Agnese

Chapter 4. Neoliberalism and Laissez-Faire: The Retreat from Naturalism
Mark Olssen

Chapter 5. Neoliberalism as Political Discourse: The Political Arithmetic of Homo Oeconomicus
Michael A. Peters

Chapter 6. Entrepreneurial Learning and the Merging of Progressive and Economic Ideals
Johan Dahlbeck and Peter Lilja

Chapter 7. Hard Work, Growth Mindset, Fluent English: Navigating Neoliberal Logics
Katy Highet and Alfonso Del Percio

Chapter 8. Gauging Neoliberal Discursive Formations in the Russell Group’s Education Strategies and Long-Term Objectives
Rodolfo Leyva

Chapter 9. Resisting the Iron Cage of ‘The Student Experience’
Sarah Hayes and Petar Jandrić

Chapter 10. Meritocracy from a Liberating and Equalising Rationality, to an Oppressive and Inequality-Promoting Rationality
Veronika Tašner and Slavko Gaber

Chapter 11. Neoliberal Language, Outcome-Based Education, and Youth-at-risk in Rural Canada
Hyunjung Shin and Angela Csiki

Chapter 12. From Racial Equity to Closing the Achievement Gap: The Discursive "Whiting Out" of Race in Neoliberal Education Policy
Pamela Rogers

Chapter 13. European Neoliberal Discourse and Slovenian Educational Space
Urška Štremfel

Chapter 14. The Language of Neoliberal Education: An Interview With Henry Giroux
Mitja Sardoč

Biography

Mitja Sardoč is Senior Research Associate at the Educational Research Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia.