ABSTRACT

Neoliberalism and Education Systems in Conflict: Exploring Challenges Across the Globe explores how neoliberal values are imprinted onto educational spaces and practices, and by consequence, fundamentally reshape how we come to understand the educational experience at the school or system level. Countries across the globe struggle with the residual effects of increased accountability, choice/voucher systems, and privatization.

The first section of the book discusses the direct imprint of neoliberal policies on educational spaces. The next section examines the more indirect outcomes of neoliberalism, including the challenges of inequity, access, violence, racism, and social justice issues as a result of neoliberal ideologies. Each section of the book includes case studies about education systems across the globe, including Britain, Middle East, Turkey, United States, China, and Chile written by international contributors.

Neoliberalism and Education Systems in Conflict is essential reading for educators, scholars, and faculty of educational leadership and policy globally.

part I|122 pages

Challenges of Markets, Poverty and Privatization

chapter 2|16 pages

Challenges of School Principals and Teachers in Private Schools

Comparison of Two Cases in the Middle East

chapter 5|18 pages

Policy–Practice Decoupling

Education Inspection Reform in China

chapter 6|16 pages

Issues in Pre- and Primary School Education in Rural Turkey

Teachers' Experiences and Perspectives

part II|73 pages

Challenges of Immigration, Conflict and Social Injustice

chapter 10|16 pages

Educational Administration Challenges in the Destabilised and Disintegrating States of Syria and Yemen

The Intersectionality of Violence, Culture, Ideology, Class/Status Group and Postcoloniality

chapter |7 pages

Concluding Remarks

The Global/Local Nexus of School Challenges Under Neoliberal Policies: What Next?