La comercialización de la educación
ISSN: 0211-8939
Year of publication: 2013
Issue: 16
Pages: 59-69
Type: Article
More publications in: Témpora: Revista de Historia y Sociología de la Educación
Abstract
The conflicts which spill over into the school represent part of a more generalised crisis in politics and citizenship in global capitalism. Neo-liberalism has become the backdrop to the changes in world-wide educational policy, no longer limited to cut-backs in resources or privatisation but reaching in to affect the very core of educational theory and pedagogical politics on a fundamental level. The social role of education, as a training ground for democracy and citizenship, is now seen as a waste of public funds, and has been replaced by the view private business has of the function of education: as a training ground for meeting the needs of business.