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THE STEAM ROLLER OF “COMPETENCIES” IN EDUCATION

The economic, historical and cultural crisis which is now confronting our societies in different forms and modes is creating a menacing landscape around scholarly institutions and educational (...)

Patterns of conflict in education

This paper was presented to the European Conference on Educational Research, Vienna 2009. The course of educational reform in England has been broader, deeper and faster-moving than that of any (...)

The New Order and Its Adversaries

Here you can download chapter 1 of the book "Shooling in Western Europe, The New Order and Its Adversaries", by Ken Hones, Comin Cunchillos, Richard hatcher, Nico Hirtt, Rosalind Innes, Samuel (...)

The marketisation of the school system in England

Under the new British government, marketisation and privatisation in the school system takes two forms. First, all schools will be able to become Academies: they gain more freedom over the (...)

New forms of privatisation in the school system and the challenge for local democracy

In the global neo-liberal education policy market England has been both a major importer, especially from the United States, and an influential exporter of policy to the rest of the world. Now, (...)

The Genocidal Logic of Neoliberalism

La Stratégie du choc, la montée d’un capitalisme du désastre (The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism) est un essai de Naomi Klein paru en 2007 chez Acte Sud. Ce compte rendu a été publié originellement in Michel Weber et Pierfrancesco Basile (dir.), "Chromatikon IV. Annuaire de la philosophie en procès - Yearbook of Philosophy in Process", Louvain-la-Neuve, Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2008, pp. 199–207.

Another School Is Possible

Education was a thread amongst the many issues up for debate during the European Social Forum in London. One specific seminar claimed that “Another School Is Possible”. Ealing National Union of (...)

We don’t want this law !

The government of the Generalitat has just submitted a new bill to the Catalan Parliament: the LEC or Catalan Education Law. This is a major move entailing far-reaching consequences. Therefore, (...)

Education as a market: views from Africa

Over the last few years, a growing body of literature referring to the process of globalization/marketisation of education in developed countries has been published. Most often, economic (...)

Ideological Discourses of the White “Bible” on Education and Training

“The White Paper on Education and Training: Teaching and Learning/Towards the Learning Society” (pub. by the European Commission in 1995) is a text of seminal importance because it seeks to outline (...)

From Brussels to Lisbon

Since the end of the 80’s, the European education systems have been submitted to an unceasing flow of criticism and reforms: decentralisation, growing autonomy of the schools, deregulation of the (...)

The three Axes of School-Merchandization

This is a longer version of the paper presented in Beijing and Dublin in 2005 Main evolutions in the education systems When we look at the evolution of compulsory education in industrialised (...)

Marketisation of Education in the Globalised Economy

The two main ideas of this paper are, firstly, that the material, economic circumstances push the education systems in advanced capitalist countries towards marketisation; and secondly that we (...)

What’s common between business in school
and Education Business ?

“Schools are important to everyone, and it has recently become a high-stakes game for that very reason. How much is that business worth ? I doubt we’ll ever be able to answer that question fully. (...)

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