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Negotiating Neoliberal Education

A Positional Issue and an Oppositional Stance

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Negotiating Neoliberalism

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The significant and rapid changes in policies that have occurred since the financial crisis in 2007/8 have, perhaps irrevocably, altered the educational landscape in the UK, and elsewhere. In what we term the reconstituted neo-liberal period, we have seen clear attempts to restore and enhance prior marketisation and privatisation strategies into an intelligible whole.

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Rudd, T., Goodson, I.F. (2017). Negotiating Neoliberal Education. In: Rudd, T., Goodson, I.F. (eds) Negotiating Neoliberalism. Studies in Professional Life and Work, vol 3. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-854-9_1

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