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.
Author(s): DAVE HILL
Edition: 1
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 260
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Figures......Page 8
Tables......Page 10
Foreword......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 22
1 Introduction......Page 24
2 Neoliberalism and Education in Latin America: Entrenched Problems, Emerging Alternatives......Page 36
3 World Bank and the Privatization of Public Education: A Mexican Perspective......Page 57
4 Argentina: Growth, Height, and Crisis of Teachers’ Opposition to Neoliberal Reforms 1991–2001......Page 76
5 Venezuela: Higher Education, Neoliberalism, and Socialism......Page 94
6 Legacy Against Possibility: Twenty-Five Years of Neoliberal Policy in Chile......Page 113
7 A Class Perspective on the New Actors and Their Demands from the Turkish Education System......Page 132
8 The Neoliberalization of Education: Services (Not Including Higher Education) Impacts on Workers’ Socioeconomic Security, Access to Services, Democratic Accountability, and Equity—A Case Study of Pakistan......Page 148
9 State, Inequality, and Politics of Capital: The Neoliberal Scourge in Education......Page 163
10 Global and Neoliberal Forces at Work in Education in Burkina Faso: The Resistance of Education Workers......Page 185
11 From “Abjectivity” to Subjectivity: Education Research and Resistance in South Africa......Page 202
12 Mozambique: Neocolonialism and the Remasculinization of Democracy......Page 220
13 From the State to the Market?: China’s Education at a Crossroads......Page 239
Contributors......Page 258
Index......Page 264
