Overview

This edited collection combines quantitative content and critical discourse analysis to reveal a shift in the rhetoric used as part of the neoliberal agenda in education. It does so by analysing, uncovering, and commenting on language as a central tool of education. Focussing on vocabulary, metaphors, and slogans used in strategy documents, advertising, policy, and public discourse, the text illustrates how concepts such as justice, opportunity, well-being, talent, and disadvantage have been hijacked by educational institutes, governments, and universities. Showing how neoliberalism has changed discourses about education and educational policy, these chapters trace issues such as anti-intellectualism, commercialization, meritocracy, and an erasure of racial difference back to a contradictory growth in egalitarian rhetoric. Given its global scope, this volume offers a timely intervention in the studies of neoliberalism and education by developing a holistic vision of how the language of neoliberalism has changed how we think about education. It will prove to be an essential resource for scholars and researchers working at the intersections of education, policymaking, and neoliberalism.

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Author:   Mitja Sardoč (Educational Research Institute, Slovenia)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.700kg
ISBN:  

9780367415471

ISBN 10:   036741547
Pages:   246
Publication Date:   22 March 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Chapter 1. The Language of Neoliberalism in Education Mitja Sardoč Chapter 2. Politics by the Numbers Theodore M. Porter Chapter 3. Playing on Two Tables: Advertising and Science in OECD’s Educational Rhetoric Vasco d’Agnese Chapter 4. Neoliberalism and Laissez-Faire: The Retreat from Naturalism Mark Olssen Chapter 5. Neoliberalism as Political Discourse: The Political Arithmetic of Homo Oeconomicus Michael A. Peters Chapter 6. Entrepreneurial Learning and the Merging of Progressive and Economic Ideals Johan Dahlbeck and Peter Lilja Chapter 7. Hard Work, Growth Mindset, Fluent English: Navigating Neoliberal Logics Katy Highet and Alfonso Del Percio Chapter 8. Gauging Neoliberal Discursive Formations in the Russell Group’s Education Strategies and Long-Term Objectives Rodolfo Leyva Chapter 9. Resisting the Iron Cage of ‘The Student Experience’ Sarah Hayes and Petar Jandrić Chapter 10. Meritocracy from a Liberating and Equalising Rationality, to an Oppressive and Inequality-Promoting Rationality Veronika Tašner and Slavko Gaber Chapter 11. Neoliberal Language, Outcome-Based Education, and Youth-at-risk in Rural Canada Hyunjung Shin and Angela Csiki Chapter 12. From Racial Equity to Closing the Achievement Gap: The Discursive ""Whiting Out"" of Race in Neoliberal Education Policy Pamela Rogers Chapter 13. European Neoliberal Discourse and Slovenian Educational Space Urška Štremfel Chapter 14. The Language of Neoliberal Education: An Interview With Henry Giroux Mitja Sardoč"

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Mitja Sardoč is Senior Research Associate at the Educational Research Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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