1st Edition
Contesting Neoliberal Education Public Resistance and Collective Advance
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.