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Woo, David – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2013
This article examines the link between the governance of Hong Kong's international school and Direct Subsidy Scheme school categories and changes in the broader Hong Kong society through a neoliberal framework. As Hong Kong's economy has grown since the 1997 handover to the People's Republic of China, an increasing number of people have come to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Governance, International Schools
Morrison, Scott A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Since the 1970s, the environmental education movement has been positioned as one of the primary means to cultivate the knowledge, values, dispositions, and behavior needed to preserve and protect the planet. Ample research suggests, however, that environmental education has failed to meet its goals, and that the state of the environment is…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Ecology, Social Justice, Privatization
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Tomlinson, Barbara; Lipsitz, George – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2013
Henry A. Giroux argues that countering the disasters of neoliberalism requires facing "the challenge of developing a politics and pedagogy that can serve and actualize a democratic notion of the social" (2011). The authors suggest that Immanuel Wallerstein's notion of "middle-run" temporality (2008) and Stuart Hall's discussion of "middle-level"…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Instruction, Privatization, Race
Santoro, Doris A., Ed.; Cain, Lizabeth, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2018
"Principled Resistance: How Teachers Resolve Ethical Dilemmas" brings together senior scholars and activist teachers to explore the concept of resistance as a necessary response to mandates that conflict with their understanding of quality teaching. The book provides vivid examples of the pedagogical, professional, and democratic…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Principles, Ethics, Teacher Attitudes
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Haseena, V. A.; Mohammed, Ajims P. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The economic growth of a nation depends greatly on the improvement in education. Human development to a great extent depends on the improvement in Education. Among various levels of education, higher education has a pervasive and influential impact on development. Higher education empowers the individual with necessary skills and competence for…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Quality, Educational Improvement, Financial Exigency
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Riley, Kathleen – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2015
Kathleen Riley begins this article by providing quotes from James H. Lytle, and Anissa Weinraub, which were published in "Perspectives on Urban Education" in the summer of 2013. While they hold different professional positions (Lytle is a retired administrator and professor; Weinraub is a teacher and organizer), both wrote as…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Reading Strategies, Reading Programs, Books
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Kimber, Megan; Ehrich, Lisa C. – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2015
Managerial changes to Australian universities have had considerable impact on employees. In this article, we consider some of these changes and apply a theory known as the democratic deficit to them. This theory was developed from the democratic critique of managerialism, as it has been applied in the public sector in countries with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Accountability, Governance
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Means, Alexander – Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education, 2014
This essay critiques the ideological assertions of corporate school reform and discusses how these logics perpetuate failure in urban education. Drawing on theories of neoliberal urbanism, the right to the city, and the commons, the essay argues that educational researchers and advocates need to reframe the values of urban education in line with a…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Neoliberalism, Urban Education, Democratic Values
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Olivier, Marty – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2014
A field enquiry in French distance education allows us to analyze the evolution of a specific institution towards new public management: Parallel to a trend of free courseware and open education, there is a paradoxical reality of distance education monetization. Whereas history shows how traditional French education is a state controlled public…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Business Administration, Models
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Weiner, Lois; Kaplan, Andy – Schools: Studies in Education, 2014
In this commentary, Andy Kaplan discusses with Lois Weiner, Diane Ravitch's latest book "The Reign of Error," which combines scholarly argument and scrupulous research in defense of democratic education. Weiner notes, the book will prove an important resource in the ongoing struggle for the survival of public schooling. Weiner adds,…
Descriptors: Democracy, Citizenship Education, Public Schools, Discourse Analysis
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Barber, Benjamin R. – Journal of College and Character, 2012
This essay is an excerpt from a keynote speech delivered by Benjamin Barber at the 2nd Annual Summer Research Institute on the "Future of Community Engagement in Higher Education." The speech focuses on six conditions that will impact community service-learning and voluntarism efforts in the years ahead: the ideology of neo-liberalism and…
Descriptors: Privatization, Service Learning, Cultural Pluralism, Citizenship
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Robbins, Christopher G. – American Journal of Education, 2012
This article presents the author's critiques on Jim Garrison's essay and focuses on Garrison's concerns about the affronts posed to democracy by the standardization and accountability regimes in education. He rightfully highlights a few critical ways by which standardization and accountability in education reflect and reinforce antidemocratic…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Privatization, Democracy, Accountability
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Hursh, David; Martina, Camille Anne – Educational Forum, 2016
Public education is becoming increasingly privatized as private philanthropic organizations, such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and corporations, such as Pearson, dominate the policy-making process, and more students enroll in publicly funded but privately administered charter schools. The privatization of education results from the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Change, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis
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Lubienski, Christopher – Oxford Review of Education, 2013
The American experiment with charter schools advanced on dual impulses of increasing opportunities for disadvantaged students and unleashing market competition. While critics see these independently managed schools as a form of privatisation, proponents contend that they are public schools because of funding and accountability arrangements and…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Outcomes of Education, Educational Opportunities, Disadvantaged
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Haugen, Cecilie Ronning – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2013
More and more nations are losing the ability to control their education systems. OECD is an important premise provider for educational policymaking championing a neoliberal agenda. With the aim to investigate the impact the OECD may have on national policymaking, this paper compares their recent teacher education policies with those of Norway. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Teacher Education, Educational Policy
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