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1Canadian Society for the Study of Education
Conference, University of British Columbia,
Vancouver31 May- 3 Jun 2008Educational
Perversion and Global NeoliberalismDave
HillUniversity of Northampton, UKChief Editor,
Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies
www.jceps.com
2- Summary
- Need to Contextualise Educational Change within
Capitalism and its current stage, neoliberalism.
Also within Neoconservatism. - The Current Neoliberal Project of Global
Capitalism its Motivation, Demands and its
(raced and gendered social class) effects - Capitals Business Plan for Education Business
Agenda FOR Schools Business Agenda IN Schools
Business Agenda Internationally - Restraining and Resisting Neoliberalism The
Resistant Role of Critical Cultural Workers - Wider than Pedagogy and Curriculum Arenas for
action by critical transformative socialist
educators - Where to go from here? Resources.
3Context and Impacts of Neoliberal (and
Neoconservative) Education PoliciesSocial Class
and Class War from Above
- The class impacts of Neoliberal Policies in
Education in Britain and The USA (and elsewhere)
include - widening (raced and gendered) social class
educational inequalities - (2) weakening key working class organisations
such as trade unions and democratically elected
municipal government - (3) worsening pay, benefits and working
conditions of workers in education- the
intensification of labour and of the extraction
of surplus value from workers labour power.
4Results of the Neoliberalisation of Education 1
Loss of Equity, Economic and Social Justice and
the Polarisation of the Labour Force 2 Loss of
Democracy and Democratic Accountability 3 Loss
of Democracy and Collegiality by the workers 4
Loss of Critical Thought. 5 Loss of the Hope
of Global Equity 6 Loss of Workers
Securities Effects on Workers Securities Case
Studies in JCEPS, in the Wayne Ross- Rich Gibson
edited book, in the forthcoming Brad Porfilio and
Curry Mallot book, and the forthcoming Routledge
and Neoliberalism Series. Also see Dave Hill
online articles
5- Capitalist Education Agendas
- Agenda In education profits, direct or indirect
- 2. Agenda For education hierarchically and
differently skilled labour power PLUS ideological
acquiescence - 3. Agenda For education corporations that are
nationally based profiting within the global
economy
6- Case Study in England and Wales Detheorized
Teacher Education - How to' has replaced 'why to' in a technicist
curriculum based on 'delivery' of a quietist and
overwhelmingly conservative set of 'standards'
for student teachers. - Teachers are now, by and large, trained in skills
rather than educated to examine the whys and the
why nots' and the contexts of curriculum,
pedagogy, educational purposes and structures and
the effects these have on reproducing capitalist
economy, society and politics. -
7- Different types of oppositional/ critical theory
all have political implications, from analysis to
(in)action - Critical Thinking
- Ken Zeichner, Dan Liston, Tom Popkewitz
- Critical Pedagogy (usually incorporating/ based
on Freirean ideas) - Ira Shor, Henry Giroux, Peter McLaren
- Other Identitarian Critical Pedagogies..e.g.
feminist, queer, anti-racist, and currently,
Critical Race Theory - Patti Lather, Judith Butler, David Gillborn
- Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy/ Socialist
Education - McLaren post mid-1990s, Paula Allman, Teresa
Ebert, The British Marxists (Glenn Rikowski,
Mike Cole, Dave Hill, Jane Kelly, Terry Wrigley,
Nick Grant).. and thousands of activists this is
grounded in Marxism and explicitly calls for the
replacement of Capitalism by Socialism
8- On Reforms
- Marx and Engels 1977 1847, p. 62) , we need to
- fight for the attainment of the immediate aims,
for the enforcement of the momentary interests of
the working class but in the movement of the
present, they also represent and take care of the
future of the movement - And, in any case, reforms are not necessarily
simply part of minimum programme realizable in
the here and now of capitalist conditions and
quiescent within them. They can be in the nature
of a kind of transitional demand a reform
whose implementation would breach the framework
of the current bourgeois order Leon Trotsky
(e.g. Trotsky, 1938).
9- Reforms (and critical pedagogy) not enough! The
Task of Socialist Educators - to expose and organise and teach against the
actual violence by the capitalist state and class
against the raced and gendered) working class - 2. to expose the ways in which they perpetuate
and reproduce their power, that of their class,
through the ideological and repressive
apparatuses of the state (such as the media, the
schooling, further education and university
systems - 3. in particular the way they do this through
demeaning and deriding the cultural capital and
knowledges of the (raced and gendered) working
class through what Pierre Bourdieu termed
cultural arbitrary and symbolic violence
the way working class kids are largely taught
they are crap, and upper class kids are taught
they will control and inherit the earth, and some
middle class kids are taught how to manage it for
them - 4. argue for, propagate, organise, agitate for
and implement democratic Marxist egalitarian
change and policy- to move from deconstruction to
reconstruction.
10- Class Consciousness
- The key task, for Marxist educators- indeed
Marxist- is class and class consciousness. - In The Poverty of Philosophy 1847 Marx
distinguishes a 'class-in-itself' (class
position) and a 'class-for itself' (class
consciousness) and, in The Communist Manifesto
(Marx and Engels, 1848), explicitly identifies
the 'formation of the proletariat into a class'
as the key political task facing the communists.
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Policy Studies, an independent Radical Left/
Socialist/ Marxist institute for developing
analysis of education policy. It is at
www.ieps.org.uk The Journal JCEPS seeks to
develop Marxist analysis of policy, theory,
ideology and policy development. The Journal for
Critical Education Policy Studies seeks and
publishes articles that critique global,
national, neo-liberal, neo-conservative, New
Labour, Third Way, and postmodernist analyses and
policy, together with articles that attempt to
report on, analyse and develop socialist/Marxist
transformative policy for schooling and education
from a number of Radical Left perspectives,
including Freirean perspectives. JCEPS also
addresses issues of Social Class, 'Race', Gender
and Capital/ism Critical Pedagogy New Public
Managerialism and Academic / non-Academic labour,
and Empowerment/ Disempowerment. The journal
therefore welcomes articles from academics and
activists throughout the globe. It is a refereed
/ peer juried international journal.
Volume 6, Number 1May 2008 Ravi KumarAgainst
Neoliberal Assault on Education in India A
Counternarrative of Resistance Richard A. Brosio
Marxist Thought Still Primus Inter Pares for
Understanding and Opposing the Capitalist
System Alex MeansNeoliberalism and the Politics
of Disposability Education, Urbanization, and
Displacement in the New Chicago Adam
Davidson-Harden Re-branding Neoliberalism and
Systemic Dilemmas in Social Development The Case
of Education and School Fees in Latin American
HIPCs Philip KovacsNeointellectuals Willing
Tools on a Veritable Crusade Raquel Goulart
BarretoRecontextualizing Information and
Communication Technologies The Discourse of
Educational Policies in Brazil (1995-2007) Isaac
N. ObasiWorld University Rankings in a
Market-driven Knowledge Society Implications for
African Universities Ilker C.BiçakçiThe
capitalistic function of education-directed
social responsibility projects in Turkey within
the context of relationships between the private
sector and NGOs Kariane WestrheimPrison as Site
for Political Education Educational experiences
from prison narrated by members and sympathisers
of the PKK Sima SadeghiCritical Pedagogy in an
EFL Teaching context An ignis fatuus or an
Alternative Approach? Martin PowerCrossing the
Sahara without water experiencing class
inequality through the Back to Education
Allowance Welfare to Education programme Elaine
HamptonU.S. Economic Influences on Mexican
Curriculum in Maquiladora Communities Crossing
the Colonization Line? Richard D. LakesThe
Neoliberal Rhetoric of Workforce
Readiness Michael CorbettThe Edumometer The
commodification of learning from Galton to the
PISA Liz JacksonReconsidering Affirmative
Action in Education as a Good for the
Disadvantaged Julia Hall, Kelvin McQueenReview
Symposium Mike Cole Marxism and Educational
Theory Origins and issues (2008, London
Routledge) Editors Prof Dave HillUniversity of
Northampton, UK (Chief/managing Editor)Prof
Peter McLarenUniversity of California, Los
Angeles, USA (Editor, North America)Prof Pablo
GentiliUniversidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil (Editor, Latin America)
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UKProf E Wayne Ross University of British
Colombia, CanadaProf Emir Sader Universidade do
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SadgopalFormer Dean, Faculty of Education,
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SloveniaDr Valerie Scatamburlo
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e Federal Fluminense, BrazilDr Geri
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ScotlandProf Shirley SteinbergMcGill
University, Montreal, CanadaProf Juha
SuorantaUniversity of Tampere, FinlandBill
TemplerUniversity of Malaya, MalaysiaProf Sally
Tomlinson Oxford University, UKProf Geoff
TromanRoehampton University, EnglandSalim
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South AfricaProf Kevin VinsonUniversity of
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University, Scotland Editorial Assistant (Latin
America) Tristan McCowan
- Socialist/ Marxist Pedagogy/ Curriculum Schooling
for Economic and Social Justice - McLaren (2000) extends the critical education
project into revolutionary pedagogy, which is
clearly based on a Marxist metanarrative.
Revolutionary pedagogy - would place the liberation from race, class and
gender oppression as the key goal for education
for the new millennium. Education so conceived
would be dedicated to creating a citizenry
dedicated to social justice and to the
reinvention of social life based on democratic
socialist ideals. (p. 196) - Socialist Educators need to go beyond critique
into action importance of theory and
analysisalso of action, action in different
arenas - ..need more actual examples and practice
published/ disseminated, from the tens of
thousands of contemporary and historical examples
of socialist/ egalitarian/ revolutionary
pedagogy, curriculum, organisation of schooling
lots happening globally!
12- Richard Brosio (2008)
- Marx(ism) and neat lesson plans
- Marx never provided a neat lesson plan for an
alternative model to capitalism. Instead, he told
us that if we come to understand capitalism, most
of us will oppose it however, we will have to
figure out what to construct as we struggle
against the system in our place and time.
(Brosio, 2008)
13- March 2003
- The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies
is published by IEPS, the Institute for Education
Policy Studies, an independent Radical Left/
Socialist/ Marxist institute for developing
analysis of education policy. It is at
www.ieps.org.uk The Journal JCEPS seeks to
develop Marxist analysis of policy, theory,
ideology and policy development. - The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies
seeks and publishes articles that critique
global, national, neo-liberal, neo-conservative,
New Labour, Third Way, and postmodernist analyses
and policy, together with articles that attempt
to report on, analyse and develop
socialist/Marxist transformative policy for
schooling and education from a number of Radical
Left perspectives, including Freirean
perspectives. JCEPS also addresses issues of
Social Class, 'Race', Gender and Capital/ism
Critical Pedagogy New Public Managerialism and
Academic / non-Academic labour, and Empowerment/
Disempowerment. The journal therefore welcomes
articles from academics and activists throughout
the globe. It is a refereed / peer juried
international journal. - Volume 6, Number 1
14- Contents of latest edition of The Journal for
Critical Education Policy Studies (vol 6(2), May
2008) - May 2008
- Ravi KumarAgainst Neoliberal Assault on
Education in India A Counternarrative of
Resistance - Richard A. Brosio Marxist Thought Still Primus
Inter Pares for Understanding and Opposing the
Capitalist System - Alex MeansNeoliberalism and the Politics of
Disposability Education, Urbanization, and
Displacement in the New Chicago - Adam Davidson-Harden Re-branding Neoliberalism
and Systemic Dilemmas in Social Development The
Case of Education and School Fees in Latin
American HIPCs - Philip KovacsNeointellectuals Willing Tools on
a Veritable Crusade - Raquel Goulart BarretoRecontextualizing
Information and Communication Technologies The
Discourse of Educational Policies in Brazil
(1995-2007) - Isaac N. ObasiWorld University Rankings in a
Market-driven Knowledge Society Implications for
African Universities - Ilker C.BiçakçiThe capitalistic function of
education-directed social responsibility projects
in Turkey within the context of relationships
between the private sector and NGOs - Kariane WestrheimPrison as Site for Political
Education Educational experiences from prison
narrated by members and sympathisers of the PKK - Sima SadeghiCritical Pedagogy in an EFL Teaching
context An ignis fatuus or an Alternative
Approach? - Martin PowerCrossing the Sahara without water
experiencing class inequality through the Back to
Education Allowance Welfare to Education
programme - Elaine HamptonU.S. Economic Influences on
Mexican Curriculum in Maquiladora Communities
Crossing the Colonization Line? - Richard D. LakesThe Neoliberal Rhetoric of
Workforce Readiness - Michael CorbettThe Edumometer The
commodification of learning from Galton to the
PISA - Liz JacksonReconsidering Affirmative Action in
Education as a Good for the Disadvantaged - Julia Hall, Kelvin McQueenReview Symposium Mike
Cole Marxism and Educational Theory Origins and
issues (2008, London Routledge)
15- Want more?
- See the Wayne Ross and
- Rich Gibson book
- Google
- dave hill education policy
- dave hill marxist
- education and neoliberalism dave hill routledge
- education and marxism dave hill deb kelsh sheila
macrine david gabbard peter mclaren
16Marxist work by British Marxists Glenn Rikowski
and by Mike Cole
- Glenn Rikowski
- Google him and his online analysis
- e.g. The Volumizer
17- Socialist/ Marxist Analysis and Action, and
Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy - Some is published in online journals such as
- 1. The Journal for Critical Education Policy
Studies (www.jceps.com) - 2. Cultural Logic (at http//clogic.eserver.org/)
- 3. Workplace, a Journal of Academic Labor
(http//www.cust.educ.ubc.ca/workplace/) - 4. Public Resistance (http//web.mac.com/publicres
istance/iWeb/publicresistance/Public20Resistance.
html) - 5. Radical Notes (http//radicalnotes.com/componen
t/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/) - 6. In the UK, The Socialist Teachers Alliance
(http//www.socialist-teacher.org/) - 7. in the USA, the Rouge Forum (http//www.rougefo
rum.org/) - 8. International Viewpoint (online at
http//www.internationalviewpoint.org/)
18Schooling and Equality Fact, Concept and Policy
Dave Hill and Mike Cole
19Routledge Studies in Education and
Neoliberalism, 2008 due out over the next few
months
- Global Neoliberalism and Education and its
Consequences - Editors Dave Hill Ravi Kumar
- Contesting Neoliberal Education Public
Resistance and Collective Advance. Editor Dave
Hill - The Developing World and State Education
Neoliberal Depredation and Egalitarian
Alternatives. Editors Dave Hill Ellen Rosskam - The Rich World and the Impoverishment of
Education Diminishing Democracy, Equity and
Workers Rights. Editor Dave Hill
20For more Dave Hill, google
- dave hill education policy
- dave hill marxist
- education and neoliberalism dave hill routledge
- the hillcole group
- The institute for education policy studies
www.ieps.org.uk - Email
- dave.hill_at_northampton.ac.uk
- dave.hill35_at_btopenworld.com
21Recent online articles by Dave Hill
- Hill, D. (2007) Education Their Agenda and Ours.
Socialist Resistance, 49. Sept. Online at
http//www.socialistresistance.net/49resistance.pd
f - Hill, D. (2007) Socialist Educators and
Capitalist Education. Socialist Outlook, 13.
Online at http//www.isg-fi.org.uk/spip.php?artic
le576 - Hill, D. and Boxley, S. (2007) Critical Teacher
Education for Economic, Environmental and Social
Justice an Ecosocialist Manifesto. Journal for
Critical education Policy Studies, 5(1). Online
at http//www.jceps.com/index.php?pageIDarticlea
rticleID96 - Hill, D. (2007) Critical Teacher Education, New
Labour in Britain, and the Global Project of
Neoliberal Capital. Policy Futures, 5 (2) pp.
204-225. Online at http//www.wwwords.co.uk/pfie/c
ontent/pdfs/5/issue5_2.asp - Greaves, N., Hill, D. and Maisuria, A. (2007)
Embourgeoisment, Immiseration, Commodification -
Marxism Revisited a Critique of Education in
Capitalist Systems. Journal for Critical
education Policy Studies, 5(1).Online at
http//www.jceps.com/index.php?pageIDarticlearti
cleID83 - Hill, D. (2006) Class, Capital and Education in
this Neoliberal/ Neoconservative Period.
Information for Social Change, 23. Online at
http//libr.org/isc/issues/ISC23/B120Dave20Hill.
pdf
22and.
- Hill, D. and Kelsh, D. (2006) The Culturalization
of Class and the Occluding of Class
Consciousness The Knowledge Industry in/of
Education. Journal for Critical Education Policy
Studies, 4 (1). - http//www.jceps.com/index.php?pageIDarticlearti
cleID59 - Hill, D. (2004) Books, Banks and Bullets
Controlling our minds- the global project of
Imperialistic and militaristic neo-liberalism and
its effect on education policy. Policy Futures in
Education, 2, 3-4, pp. 504-522 (Theme Marxist
Futures in Education). http//www.wwwords.co.uk/pf
ie/content/pdfs/2/issue2_3.asp - Hill, D. (2004) O Neoliberalismo Global, a
Resistência e a Deformação da Educação, Curriculo
sem Frontieras 3, 3 pp.24-59. (Brazil) 2004) - http//www.curriculosemfronteiras.org/
- Hill, D. (2004) Educational perversion and global
neo-liberalism a Marxist critique Cultural
Logic an electronic journal of Marxist Theory
and Practice. Online at http//eserver.org/clogic/
2004/2004.html - Hill, D. (2003) Global Neo-Liberalism, the
Deformation of Education and Resistance, Journal
for Critical Education Policy Studies, 1 (1)
http//www.jceps.com/index.php?pageIDarticlearti
cleID7 - Hill, D. (2003) (second edition) Brief
Autobiography of a Bolshie Dismissed. Brighton
Institute for Education Policy Studies. Online at
http//www.ieps.org.uk.cwc.net/bolsharticle.pdf