Neoliberalism and the Global Restructuring of Knowledge and Education (Routledge Advances in Sociology 60)

This book examines the influence of neoliberal ideas and practices on the way knowledge has been conceptualized, produced, and disseminated over the last few decades at different levels of public education and in various national contexts around the world. Contents of this book include: (1) Introduction: The Contemporary Politics of Knowing and Learning; (2) Changing the Soul: The Contours, Currents and Contradictions of the Neoliberal Revolution; (3) The Machinations of the Managerialism: New Public Management and the Diminishing Power of Knowledge Professionals; (4) The Neoliberalization of Knowledge: Privatization and the New Epistemic Economy; (5) The New Marketplace of Ideas: The New Knowledge Makers and their New Knowledge; (6) Creating the Clever Country: Neoliberalism, Knowledge Society Policies and the Restructuring of Higher Education; (7) "An Island of Socialism in a Free Market Sea:" Building the Market-Oriented School; and (8) Aligning Markets and Minds: The Responsiblized Self in the New Entrepreneurial Culture Cover......Page 1 Neoliberalism and the Global Restructuring of Knowledge and Education......Page 6 Copyright ......Page 7 Contents......Page 10 Acknowledgments......Page 12 Introduction: The Contemporary Politics of Knowing and Learning......Page 14 1 Changing the Soul: The Contours, Currents and Contradictions of the Neoliberal Revolution......Page 28 2 The Machinations of Managerialism: New Public Management and the Diminishing Power of Knowledge Professionals......Page 59 3 The Neoliberalization of Knowledge: Privatization and the New Epistemic Economy......Page 87 4 The New Marketplace of Ideas: The New Knowledge Makers and Their New Knowledge......Page 114 5 Creating the “Clever Country”: Neoliberalism, Knowledge Society Policies and the Restructuring of Higher Education......Page 142 6 “An Island of Socialism in a Free Market Sea”: Building the Market-Oriented School......Page 171 7 Aligning Markets and Minds: The Responsibilized Self in the New Entrepreneurial Culture......Page 197 Notes......Page 226 References......Page 234 Index......Page 260 The book accounts on the influence of neoliberal ideas and practices on the way knowledge has been conceptualized, produced and disseminated over the last few decades as experienced by the author