Neoliberalism and Education

<p><em>Neoliberalism and Education: Rearticulating Social Justice and Inclusion</em> offers a critical reflection on the establishment of neoliberalism as the new global orthodoxy in the field of education and considers what this means for social justice and inclusion. It brings together writers from a number of countries who explore notions of inclusion and social justice in educational settings ranging from elementary schools to higher education. Contributors examine policy practice and pedagogical considerations covering different dimensions of (in)equality including disability race gender and class. They raise questions about what social justice and inclusion mean in educational systems that are dominated by competition benchmarking and target-driven accountability and about the new forms of imperialism and colonisation that both drive and are a product of market-driven reforms. While exposing the entrenchment under current neoliberal systems of educational provision of longstanding patterns of (racialised classed and gendered) privilege and disadvantage the contributions presented in this book also consider the possibilities for hope and resistance drawing attention to established and successful attempts at democratic education or community organisation across a number of countries. This book was originally published as a special issue of the <i>British Journal of Sociology of Education.</i></p>