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

    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 activists, explores the mechanisms and ideologies behind neoliberal education, while evaluating and promoting resistance on a local, national and global level.

    Chapters examine the activities and impacts of the arguably socialist revolution in Venezuela, the Porto Alegre democratic community experimental model in Brazil, the activities of the Rouge Forum of democratic socialist teachers and educators in the USA, Public Service International, resistance movements against the GATS (General Agreement on Trade in Services), and trade union and social movement and community/parental opposition to neoliberal education policies in Britain and in Latin America.

    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.