A Class Perspective on the New Actors and Their Demands from the Turkish Education System

In recent years, various concepts and discourses have been developed to support the new educational policies that conceive knowledge production and education in terms of their functional relationship to employment, and students as the potential sources of labour power. The main concepts and discourses used for the realization, legitimization, and internalization of this transformation are: information society, lifelong learning, fl exibilitystandardization-evaluation, changing skills, and effi ciency.