1st Edition

The Developing World and State Education Neoliberal Depredation and Egalitarian Alternatives

Edited By Dave Hill, Ellen Rosskam Copyright 2009
    274 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    276 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    Neoliberalism has had a major impact on schooling and education in the Developing World, with social repercussions that have affected the salaries of teachers, the number and type of potential students, the availability of education, the cost of education, and more. This edited collection argues that the privatization of public services and the capitalization and commodification of education have resulted in the establishment of competitive markets that are marked by selection, exclusion and inequality.

    The contributors - academics and organization/social movement activists - examine aspects of neoliberal arguments focusing on low- and middle-income countries (including Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela, China, Pakistan, India, Turkey, Burkina Faso, Mozambique and South Africa), and suggest where they fall short. Their arguments center around the assumption that education is not a commodity to be bought and sold, as education and the capitalist market hold opposing goals, motivations, methods, and standards of excellence.

    1. Preface:

    Susan L. Robertson

    (Bristol University, UK)

    2. Introduction

    Dave Hill and Ellen Rosskam

    (University of Northampton, UK)

    3. Latin America

    Adam Davidson-Harden

    (Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.)

    Daniel Schugurensky

    (The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT), Canada).

    4. Mexico

    Gian Carlo Delgado-Ramos

    (National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM))

    John Saxe-Fernández

    (National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM))

    5. Argentina

    Julian Gindin

    (Taller de Estudios Laborales, Buenos Aires, Argentina).

    6. Brazil

    Luis Armando Gandin (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil)

    7. Venezuela

    Antoni Verger

    (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)

    Thomas Muhr

    (Bristol University, UK)

    8. Chile

    Jill Pinkney-Pastrana

    (California State University, USA)

    9. Turkey

    Fuat Ercan

    (University of Marmara, Turkey)

    10. Pakistan

    Ahmed Mukhtar

    (formerly Section Officer (WTO), Ministry of Commerce, Islamabad, Pakistan).

    11. India

    Ravi Kumar

    (Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India)

    12. Thailand

    Bill Templer

    (Rajamangala University of Technology, Thailand)

    13. Burkina Faso

    Touorouzou Some

    (University of Buffalo, NY, USA)

    14. South Africa

    Salim Vally

    (University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)

    15. China

    Biography

    Dave Hill, Professor of Education Policy (University of Northampton, England), Chief Editor of the Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies (www.jceps.com), has published ten books and lectures worldwide. He was Labour Parliamentary candidate, Labour Council Group Leader, trade union regional leader, and co-founded the Hillcole Group of Radical Left Educators.

    Ellen Rosskam is Southeast Europe Policy Scholar at the Southeast Europe Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars conducting research on the liberalization of education in Turkey. She is Visiting Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA, Work Environment Department and Visiting Senior Fellow at University of Surrey, European Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, England. Dr. Rosskam is a public health and social protection specialist working internationally. She has led research projects at the regional, national and global level, and has worked in over 40 countries.