ABSTRACT
The political and economic theory behind neoliberal ideology is one of the main architectural and philosophical features of the educational policy paradigm in the Western world since the late 1970s and early 1980s. The notion of 'policy enactments' means to consider some of the 'lived effects' of neoliberal policy on our contemporary educational discourses and on lived experiences and narratives that occur in education settings and that testify to these changes. Neoliberal ideology is permeated by neoliberal governmentality, where the hierarchy of management chains substitutes delegated power to become hierarchical forms of authoritatively structured human working relations. Neoliberal ideology is united by the strong belief that state intervention, which promotes egalitarian social goals, has been responsible for economic decline. Neoliberalism performs what can be perceived as accountability regimes. Professional accountability may be perceived to be a form of democratic accountability.
