Introduction
In the last decade of the twentieth century, many authors commented on the new economic, cultural, and political system being implemented worldwide, which emerged after the crises and fall of socialism: that is to say, neoliberalism. According to Connell (2013, p. 100), this system has an economic and social agenda to be implemented in every society, to be achieved under the auspices of a free market. This agenda turns neoliberalism into not merely a simple set of economic policies; rather, as Miraftab (2009, p. 34) notes, it should be understood as a network of policies, ideologies, values and rationalities, and certainly some of these are disarticulated and contradictory – however, it aims to encompass all peoples, institutions, and culture itself. This means that educational policies are an important part of this system, and it is one of the areas that policy-makers are keen to implement changes (McLaren and Farahmandpur 2001). In this light, we understand that this...
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Guilherme, A., Picoli, B.A. (2019). Neoliberalism and Education in the Global South: A New Form of Imperialism. In: Ness, I., Cope, Z. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91206-6_144-1
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