Contesting Governing Ideologies

<p><em>Contesting Governing Ideologies</em> is the third volume in the <i>Educational Philosophy and Theory: Editor’s Choice </i>series and represents a collection of texts that provide a cutting-edge analysis of the philosophy and theory of performances of neoliberal ideology in education. In past decades philosophy of education has provided a critical commentary on problematic areas of neoliberal ideology. As such this collection argues philosophy of education can be considered as an intellectual struggle that runs through the contemporary ideological landscape and has roots that go back to the Enlightenment in its traditions.</p><p>This book covers multiple philosophical and educational theoretical perspectives of what we know about the ideology of neoliberalism and many of its practices and projects. Neoliberalism is difficult to define but what is certain is that it has significantly matured as a political doctrine and set of policy practices. This collection covers questions of ideology politics and policy in relation to the subject and the institution alike. The chapters in this book provide rich and diverse reading allowing readers to rethink established discourses and contest ideologies providing a thorough and careful philosophical and theoretical analysis of the story of neoliberalism over the past decades.</p><p>Contesting Governing Ideologies will be key reading for academics researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of philosophy of education philosophy education educational theory post-structural theory the policy and politics of education and the pedagogy of education.</p>