Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book covers multiple philosophical and educational theoretical perspectives of what we know about the ideology of neoliberalism and many of its practices and projects. Neoliberalism is difficult to define, but what is certain is that it has significantly matured as a political doctrine and set of policy practices. This collection covers questions of ideology, politics and policy in relation to the subject and the institution alike. The book provides rich and diverse reading, allowing readers to rethink established discourses and contest ideologies, providing a thorough and careful philosophical and theoretical analysis of the story of neoliberalism over the past decades. Contesting Governing Ideologies will be key reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of philosophy of education, philosophy, education, educational theory, post-structural theory, the policy and politics of education and the pedagogy of education.