Gobernar la educación a través de los padrespolítica educativa y construcción de subjetividades neoliberales en Inglaterra. (Governing education through parents: education policy and the construction of neoliberal subjectivities in England)

In this paper we explore the relationship between market norms and practices and the development of the figure of the parent within British education policy. Since the 1970s parents in England have been called upon to perform certain duties and obligations in their relation to the state. These duties include internalizing responsibility for risks, liabilities, inequities and the spectre of crises formerly managed by the state. Rather than characterize this situation in terms of the ‘hollowing of the state’, we argue that the role of the state includes enabling the functioning of the parent as a neoliberal subject, so that they may successfully harness the power of the market to their own advantage and (hopefully) minimize the kinds of risk generated through a deregulated education system. In this paper we examine how parents are compelled to embody certain market norms and practices as they navigate the field of education. In particular we focus on how parents are 1) summoned as consumers or choosers of education services, and thus encouraged to embody through their behaviour a competitive orientation; 2) summoned as governors and custodians of schools, with a focus on assessing financial and educational performance; and 3) summoned as producers and founders of schools, with a focus on entrepreneurial and innovative activity.

Neoliberal and Neoconservative Immiseration Capitalism in England: Policies and Impacts on Society and on Education

In this article we firstly set out the facts about the current stage of capitalism, the Immiseration stage of neoliberal capitalism in England. We note its relationship with conservatism and neo-conservatism. We identify increased societal inequalities, the assault by the capitalist state on its opponents, and proceed to describe and analyse what neoliberalism and neo-conservatism have done and are doing to education in England- in the schools, further education, and university sectors. We present two testimonies about the impacts of neoliberalism/ neo-conservatism, one from the school sector, one from the further / vocational education sector, as a means of describing, analysing, and then theorising the parameters of the neoliberal/ neoconservative restructuring education and its impacts. We conclude by further theorising this. With the election of a Conservative majority in the 7 May 2015 general election in the UK, the policies and processes of neoliberalisation and neoconservatisation are being intensified.

The (Im)possibility of the Intellectual Worker Inside the Neoliberal University

The provocation and point of this paper is that universities of the North during the era of neoliberalism of have been sucked of their human life-giving capacities. What remains are closed doors and bare walls. Lest we give the impression of a hopelessly romantic view of the university (and embark upon a lament for some paradise lost), let us be clear from the outset: there is no such place – and there never has been. As will be outlined below, a consideration of the history of the university reveals it was born and has persistently drawn its life breath from oxygen formed in the tension ridden mix of an impulse to human freedom and accommodation to powers of church, state and capital. But, we contend, history is now the witness to the almost complete dissolution of that tension: to the exhaustion of emancipatory impulses in the service of indoctrination, regulation and accumulation. In the church-state-capital triad, it is the latter that has emerged hegemonic. Importantly, we argue, its dominance has emerged with the rise of what Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy describe as monopoly capital: the move from competitive (small entrepreneurial business) forms to monopolistic (large corporate business) regimes of accumulation (Baran & Sweezy 1966). A central feature of monopoly capitalism is its need for significant financial support of national states and the harnessing of public resources such as universities to feed accumulation. It is no surprise that neoliberalism, despite its neoclassical economic pronouncements, is a ‘big state’ advocate (Harvey 2005). Our argument is that neoliberalism, as the political workhorse of monopoly capitalism, has overseen a makeover of universities so they might behave like a monopoly capitalist corporation. Our time is the time of the near global domination of capital. The university has succumbed. In its colonisation – its capitalisation – the university has not only reinvented itself as a willing ally of capital but has also set about remaking itself in its image.

Governing through parents: a genealogical enquiry of education policy and the construction of neoliberal subjectivities in England

In this paper we explore the various spaces and sites through which the figure of the parent is summoned and activated to inhabit and perform market norms and practices in the field of education in England. Since the late 1970s successive governments have called on parents to enact certain duties and obligations in relation to the state. These duties include adopting and internalizing responsibility for all kinds of risks, liabilities and inequities formerly managed by the Keynesian welfare state. Rather than characterize this situation in terms of the ‘hollowing of the state’, we argue that the role of the state includes enabling the functioning of the parent as a neoliberal subject so that they may successfully harness the power of the market to their own advantage and (hopefully) minimize the kinds of risk and inequity generated through a market-based, deregulated education system. In this paper we examine how parents in England are differently, yet similarly, compelled to embody certain market norms and practices as they navigate the field of education. Adopting genealogical enquiry and policy discourse analysis as our methodology, we explore how parents across three policy sites or spaces are constructed as objects and purveyors of utility and ancillaries to marketisation. This includes a focus on how parents are summoned as 1) consumers or choosers of education services; 2) governors and overseers of schools; and 3) producers and founders of schools.

Affective Labour and Neoliberal Fantasies: The Gendered and Moral Economy of School Choice in England.

This is the accepted manuscript of chapter 13 in, Vandenbeld Giles, M. (Ed.), 2014, Mothering in the Age of Neoliberalism, Demeter Press. For further details and how to order the title, please see: http://demeterpress.org/books/mothering-in-the-age-of-neoliberalism/

Conflict and Stability in the Neoliberal Era: Explaining Urban Unrest in Latin America

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-08

The Good Liberal and the Scoundrel Author: Fantasy, Dissent, and neoliberal subjectivity in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials

Philip Pullman, author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, has acquired an impressive critical reputation and acquired a favored role in British culture as a social commentator. This essay attempts to link the pleasures associated with the trilogy with the politics inscribed in them, and consider both in the context of Pullman’s role in the civil society. The essay suggests that The Northern Lights offers pleasures in fantastical and metaphysical possibilities, and social confederacies that potentially offset the affective privations of neoliberalism. These possibilities are set in the context of recent theories of the “enterprise society.” The essay draws attention to a number of discontinuities that unfold as the trilogy progresses, and suggests that these undermine the possibilities inherent in the first novel. These disconti - nuities throw the role of fantasy and alternative universes into question, and reveal the limitations of Pullman’s fiction. The essay considers the limit and scope of Pullman’s political vision, both as a function of his fiction and his public engagement with social issues, and suggests that he exemplifies Raymond Williams’s concept of “bourgeois dissent” in which political critique and a continuing investment in traditional institutions and class hierarchy can be mutually reinforcing.

Teaching boys in neoliberal and postfeminist times: Feminization and the question of re-masculinization in the education system and policy field

This paper focuses on teaching boys, male teachers and the question of gendered pedagogies in neoliberal and postfeminist times of the proliferation of new forms of capitalism, multi-mediated technologies and the influence of globalization. It illustrates how a politics of re-masculinization and its reconstitution needs to be understood as set against changing economic and social conditions in which gender equity comes to be re-focused on boys as the ‚new disadvantaged‘. This re-framing of gender equity, it is argued, has been fuelled by both a media-inspired backlash discourse about ‚failing boys‘ and a neo-positivist emphasis on numbers derived primarily from standardized testing regimes at both global and national levels. A media-focused analysis of the proliferation of discourses about ‚failing boys‘ vis-a-vis the problem of encroaching feminization in the school system is provided to illuminate how certain truths about the influence of male teachers come to define how the terms of ensuring gender equity are delimited and reduced to a question of gendered pedagogies as grounded in sexed bodies. Historical accounts of the feminization of teaching in the North American context are also provided as a basis for building a more informed understanding of the present, particularly as it relates to the contextualization of policy articulation and enactment regarding the problem of teaching boys. In light of such historically informed and critical media analysis, it is argued that what is needed is a more informed, evidenced based policy articulation of the problem of teaching boys and a more gender sensitive reflection on the politics of masculinities in postfeminist times. (DIPF/Orig.)

Repercusiones laborales de la estrategia neoliberal en la industria Poblana del vestido

La subcontratación y la inestabilidad laboral son dos fenómenos sociales íntimamente ligados desde los orígenes del sistema capitalista mundial. Ambos se incrementaron, tanto en los países centrales como en los periféricos, a raíz de la crisis capitalista detonada por Richard Nixon en 1971 al devaluar el dólar. La restructuración de la industria manufacturera mundial provocada por la estrategia neoliberal ha tenido repercusiones estructurales ante todo en las industrias intensivas en mano de obra barata. La industria del vestido poblana es un caso evidente que demuestra la multiplicación de las maquiladoras y la creciente inestabilidad laboral durante la era neoliberal.

Who Governs Educational Change? The Paradoxes of State Power and the Pursuit of Educational Reform in Post-Neoliberal Ecuador (2007-2015)

This study identifies and compares competing policy stories of key actors involved in the Ecuadorian education reform under President Rafael Correa from 2007-2015. By revealing these competing policy stories the study generates insights into the political and technical aspects of education reform in a context where state capacity has been eroded by decades of neoliberal policies. Since the elections in 2007, President Correa has focused much of his political effort and capital on reconstituting the state’s authority and capacity to not only formulate but also implement public policies. The concentration of power combined with a capacity building agenda allowed the Correa government to advance an ambitious comprehensive education reform with substantive results in equity and quality. At the same time the concentration of power has undermined a more inclusive and participatory approach which are essential for deepening and sustaining the reform. This study underscores both the limits and importance of state control over education; the inevitable conflicts and complexities associated with education reforms that focus on quality; and the limits and importance of participation in reform. Finally, it examines the analytical benefits of understanding governance, participation and quality as socially constructed concepts that are tied to normative and ideological interests.

The murky waters of neoliberal marketization and commodification on the education of adults in the United States

We approach marketization and commodification of adult education from multiple lenses including our personal narratives and neoliberalism juxtaposed against the educational philosophy of the Progressive Period. We argue that adult education occurs in many arenas including the public spaces found in social movements, community-based organizations, and government sponsored programs designed to engage and give voice to all citizens toward building a stronger civil society. We conclude that only when adult education is viewed from the university lens, where it focuses on the individual and not the public good, does it succumb to neoliberal forces. (DIPF/Orig.)

Golpe de Estado no século XXI : o caso de Honduras (2009) e a recomposição hegemônica neoliberal

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Centro de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação sobre as América, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos Comparados sobre as Américas, 2016.

Condiciones de trabajo de los profesionales de trabajo social en el modelo neoliberal colombiano

Tesis (Trabajador (a) Social).-- Universidad de La Salle. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y sociales. Programa de Trabajo Social, 2015

The St. Mihiel offensive.

Shows troop movements , defenses, and railways.

Evaluación de la inversión en Educación Superior Universitaria en el marco del modelo neoliberal ( 1999-2012).

El sector educativo para un país puede incidir en muchos aspectos de la sociedad desde socioculturales hasta económicos, de los cuales hay muchas teorías y tratados que aluden a la importancia y efectos del desarrollo de este sector, que van desde aspectos académicos, cohesión social, crecimiento económico y la productividad, debido a esto en esta investigación se le dio importancia a la inversión en educación superior bajo la teoría del capital humano tomando el aspecto coyuntural en El Salvador observando características del modelo neoliberal en los años 1999 -2012. El análisis de la inversión en educación superior se ha realizado a través de un diagnóstico de ciertos indicadores de carácter educativos y económicos que ayudan a la realización de un análisis que no solo observa el aspecto público, si no, intenta incluir en la medida de los posible algunos aspectos privados que están al alcance de la investigación. La educación como parte del ramo que integra el área de desarrollo social dentro de la asignación presupuestaria en el periodo de estudio ha tenido una disminución de 42.98 puntos en el 2012 con respecto al año 2003 que tenía una asignación de 85.63 %, además la educación básica abarca en el mismo periodo al menos el 70% de la inversión asignada en cada año, por otra parte la inversión en educación superior registrada por el MINED en los años 2001 -2011 no sobrepasa el 12 %. El Costo promedio por estudiante universitario para el caso de la UES se ha determinado un de $99.20 dólares anuales para el año 1999, y $104.15 para el 2012; para el sector Privado el costo promedio paso de $477.2 para 1999 a $731.4 para el año 2012. Lo que presenta para un aumento de 4.99 % en el costo para UES y un 53.27% para el sector privado. Con respecto al financiamiento público en educación superior es completamente adquirido del fondo general y desglosado en transferencias corrientes y de capital en el periodo de investigación las trasferencias de capital no sobrepasan el millón de dólares, y las trasferencias corrientes de 27 millones en 2002 a 62 millones en 2012 que en su 98% va destinado a remuneraciones, adquisición de bienes y servicios La Tasa Bruta de Matricula Total de Educación Superior, para el año 1999 presenta 17.5% y 24.9% para el año 2012, que va distribuida entre las universidades privadas (UES) y públicas que de 1999 al 2012 mantienen entre un 70% de población universitaria las privadas y un 30 % la UES, debido a la amplia oferta de instituciones privadas Al observar la Planta docente se analiza mejor las diferencias que tienen con respecto al tipo de contratacion ya que para la UES al menos el 60% de son a tiempo completo, al menos 30 % a tiempo parcial y al menos 10 % hora clase y en divergencia las instituciones privadas al menos el 65 % son contratados horas clases, 25% a tiempo completo y 10 % a tiempo parcial. En cuanto a las areas de formacion con más población para el período en estudio tenemos, ciencias económicas, salud y derecho, las carreras especificas con mayor demanda es ciencias jurídicas y administración de empresas y doctorado en medicina, en convergencia la titulacion con mas representacion con las licenciaturas También se relacionaron algunos indicadores, como el nivel educativo, grupos ocupacionales, ocupados por rama de actividad económica y salarios mensuales para ver en consistencia con la teoría del capital humano y datos específicos para El Salvador si hay algún tipo de relación en el nivel educativo y la colocación laboral y por ende en el nivel de ingresos, dada la estructura productiva del país arroja datos interesantes para los fines de la investigación y sus respectivas conclusiones y recomendaciones