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Gary McCulloch – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2024
The educational historian Brian Simon is well known for his portrayal of the social and political conflicts surrounding adult working-class education in 19th and early 20th-century England. However, the third and fourth volumes of his classic history of education in Britain, covering the period from 1920 to 1940 and 1940 to 1990 respectively,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Marxian Analysis, Educational History, Working Class
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Darren Cogavin – Policy Futures in Education, 2024
This article considers how neoliberalism has created a reductionist view of lifelong learning in the UK focused on upskilling workers for the labour market. This critical policy analysis uses Marx's theory of labour-power, as conceptualised by Glenn Rikowski, to examine the Skills and Post-16 Education Act, 2022 and to identify its ideological…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Neoliberalism, Lifelong Learning