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Social Innovation as a Driver for New Educational Practices
Based on the results of the EU funded Social Innovation-Driving Force of Social Change (SI-DRIVE) project the major challenges and needs of education and lifelong learning worldwide are revealed, focusing on solutions via new educational practices delivered by social innovations and embedding civil … Continue reading
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A dangerous idea? Freedom, Children and the Capability Approach to Education
This article begins by observing how education is currently appreciated primarily for its utility value, a view informed by utilitarianism and neoclassical economic theory. A critique of that framing is offered and an alternative way of valuing education informed by … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood, Educational policy, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Philosophy of education, Social exclusion, Youth
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Neoliberalism is not a theory of everything: a Bourdieuian analysis of illusio in educational research
Despite the frequency with which the concept of neoliberalism is employed within academic literature, its complex and multifaceted nature makes it difficult to define and describe. Indeed, data reported in this article suggest that there is a tendency in educational … Continue reading
Posted in Bourdieu, Critical theory, Educational policy, Higher education, Neoliberalism, Postmodernism
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Care of the self, resistance and subjectivity under neoliberal governmentalities
Resistance is normally thought of as a collective exercise of public political activity. In this article, Ball and Olmedo approach the question of resistance in a different way, through Foucault’s notion of ‘the care of the self’. Neoliberal reforms in … Continue reading
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