ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the relations between educational thought and the political construction of society in neoliberal discourse and, in particular, in the concept of the knowledge-based society which it has spawned. The act of colonization is an act of social change, an attempt at transforming borders, identities, policies, and cultural practices. Since the 1980s, the discourse of education, along with that of social work, health, urban development, etc., has been invested with economic concepts and ideas. The notion of learning, apart from metaphorizing education as a market transaction, empowers individual subjects and ultimately makes them responsible not only for their narrowly understood learning, but for their meaningful, socially adequate lives in general.
