Impacts of Neoliberal Discourse and Language in Education

<p>This edited collection combines quantitative content and critical discourse analysis to reveal a shift in the rhetoric used as part of the neoliberal agenda in education. It does so by analysing uncovering and commenting on language as a central tool of education.</p><p>Focussing on vocabulary metaphors and slogans used in strategy documents advertising policy and public discourse the text illustrates how concepts such as justice opportunity well-being talent and disadvantage have been hijacked by educational institutes governments and universities. Showing how neoliberalism has changed discourses about education and educational policy these chapters trace issues such as anti-intellectualism commercialization meritocracy and an erasure of racial difference back to a contradictory growth in egalitarian rhetoric.</p><p>Given its global scope this volume offers a timely intervention in the studies of neoliberalism and education by developing a holistic vision of how the language of neoliberalism has changed how we think about education. It will prove to be an essential resource for scholars and researchers working at the intersections of education policymaking and neoliberalism.</p>