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Impacts of Neoliberal Discourse and Language in Education - Critical Perspectives on a Rhetoric of Equality, Well Being, Justice

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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.


List of contents










Chapter 1. The Language of Neoliberalism in Education
Mitja Sardö
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 Jandri¿
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 Sardö


About the author










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


Summary

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.

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