Neoliberalism and the Degradation of Education
Volume 26 (2015) of Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research, published in partnership with Athabasca University Press.
More than a dozen contributions deal with a range of topics, including corporate influences on campus, precarious work and trade union struggles, international policy developments and ethnographic research. The Interventions section contains interviews with noted scholars, activists and policy makers, as well as critical engagements with the theory and practice of education and case studies of marginalized youth. Together the articles provide a vivid portrait of the challenges confronting public education under neoliberalism.
The complete issue and every individual article are available as free PDFs from Alternate Routes.
Book Details
Edited by: Carlo Fanelli and Bryan Evans
Volume: 26
Year: 2015
ISSN: 0702-8865 (print) / 1923-7081 (online)
Publisher: Red Quill Books, in partnership with Athabasca University Press
Format: Free PDF
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Alternate Routes (free PDF)Table of Contents
ARTICLES
Capitalism in the Classroom: The Commodification of Education — Carlo Fanelli, Bryan Evans
The Corporate Corruption of Academic Research — Jamie Brownlee
The Tyranny of Work: Employability and the Neoliberal Assault on Education — Jeff Noonan, Mireille Coral
Why Do Governments Adopt Neoliberal Education Policies? Critical Theory on Policy Movement in the Context of Contemporary Reform in Mexico — Paul Bocking
Free-Marketization of Academia through Authoritarianism: The Bologna Process in Turkey — Simten Coşar, Hakan Ergül
Rebellious Responses to the Walmartization of Canadian Higher Education — Garry Potter
