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Stephen Beresford; Alpesh Maisuria – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2024
In this article, we posit a Marxist critique of the way that neoliberal capitalism has thwarted the possibility of comprehensive education. We begin with an explanation of the unique productive capacity of human labour, and the centrality of labour power for capitalism. We go on to show the importance of the education system for continually…
Descriptors: High Schools, Neoliberalism, Social Systems, Labor Force Development
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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
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McMillan, Chris – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2018
While the loss of space for critical engagement has been a primary focus for critics of the neo-liberal transformation of higher education, the recasting of the relationship between education and economy has not meant the death of critical thinking. Instead, I argue that critical thinking has emerged as a binding point in higher education…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Neoliberalism, Educational Change, Social Systems
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Kubota, Ryuko; Miller, Elizabeth R. – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2017
As critical perspectives in language studies have gained legitimacy and even mainstream status in applied linguistics, it is necessary to re-examine the meaning of criticality in language studies and to re-envision criticality for further development. The authors explore criticality from several theoretical perspectives as well as from the notion…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Language Research, Theory Practice Relationship, Postmodernism
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Templer, Bill – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2014
The present paper--from a vantage in Bulgaria, and focusing in significant part on this country as an iconic example of the "post-socialist freefall' and its dystopia on European capitalism's neocolonial "new periphery"--is a revised version of an earlier chapter in "Immiseration Capitalism and Education: Austerity, Resistance…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Systems, Neoliberalism, Educational Change