Producing difference: neoliberalism, neoconservatism and the politics of educational reform
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Educational reform;, Neoliberalism;, NeoconservatismAbstract
In this article, serious questions are raised about current educational “reform” efforts now underway in a number of nations. Gramscian inspired arguments about the growing power of rightist common sense, included in Educating the “Right” Way (Apple, 2006), are broadened and updated. In the process, research and arguments based on the English, US, New Zealand, and Scandinavian experience(s) are used to document some of the hidden differential effects of two connected strategies - neoliberal inspired market proposals with an emphasis on what we will call “thin democracy” based on individual consumer choice rather than “thick democracy” based on full collective participation and neoliberal, neoconservative, and middle class managerial inspired regulatory proposals that enforce the power of “audit culture.”
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