The Developing World and State Education: Neoliberal Depredation and Egalitarian Alternatives

ISBN-13: 9780415957762 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 276 str.

Dave Hill;Hill Dave

Opis

Neoliberalism has had a major impact on schooling and education in the Developing World, with social repercussions that have affected the salaries of teachers, the number and type of potential students, the availability of education, the cost of education, and more. This edited collection argues that the privatization of public services and the capitalization and commodification of education have resulted in the establishment of competitive markets that are marked by selection, exclusion and inequality. The contributors - academics and organization/social movement activists - examine aspects of neoliberal arguments focusing on low- and middle-income countries (including Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela, China, Pakistan, India, Turkey, Burkina Faso, Mozambique and South Africa), and suggest where they fall short. Their arguments center around the assumption that education is not a commodity to be bought and sold, as education and the capitalist market hold opposing goals, motivations, methods, and standards of excellence.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Dave Hill, Professor of Education Policy (University of Northampton, England), Chief Editor of the Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies (www.jceps.com), has published ten books and lectures worldwide. He was Labour Parliamentary candidate, Labour Council Group Leader, trade union regional leader, and co-founded the Hillcole Group of Radical Left Educators.

Ellen Rosskam is Southeast Europe Policy Scholar at the Southeast Europe Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars conducting research on the liberalization of education in Turkey. She is Visiting Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA, Work Environment Department and Visiting Senior Fellow at University of Surrey, European Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, England. Dr. Rosskam is a public health and social protection specialist working internationally. She has led research projects at the regional, national and global level, and has worked in over 40 countries.