ABSTRACT
Neoliberalism is about both money and minds, and, as Stephen Ball usually argues, is a nexus of common interest between various forms of contemporary capital and the contemporary state. He can divide neoliberalism into three interrelated and uneven phases: these are 'proto' neoliberalism, 'roll-back' neoliberalism and 'roll-out' neoliberalism. The neoliberal discourse is continuously being adjusted, learning from other policies and reflexive on an institutional level. As soon as he takes neoliberalism seriously it becomes clear that education policy analysis cannot be limited to the boundaries of a nation state. Personalization is relatively new on the education policy landscape. This is part of what Peck and Tickell refer to as the 'deep process' of neoliberalization, and they argue that 'one of the more far-reaching effects of this deep process of neoliberalization has been the attempt to sequester key economic policy issues beyond the reach of explicit politicization.
