ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I examine in even more detail the ways in which the social and cultural terrain of educational policy and discourse has been altered "on the ground" so to speak. I argue that we need to make closer connections between our theoretical and critical discourses on the one hand and the real transformations that are currently shifting educational policies and practices in fundamentally rightist directions on the other. Thus, part of my discussion is conceptual, but part of it appropriately is more empirical than in Chapter 2 in order for me to pull together what is known about the real and material effects of the shift to the right in education.
