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Book SynopsisNeoliberalism is having a detrimental impact on wider social and ethical goals in the field of education. Using an international range of contexts, this book provides practical examples that demonstrate how neoliberalism can be challenged and changed at the local, national and transnational level.
Trade Review“This book brings together an impressive international group of researchers to focus on challenging neoliberalism in education. I would recommend this book not only for the ideas it discusses, but also for the practices of resistance the authors detail in depth.” Leona M. English, St. Francis Xavier University
Table of ContentsForeword: the imperative to resist ~ Kathleen Lynch Introduction: resisting neoliberalism in education ~ Lyn Tett and Mary Hamilton Part I : Adult education Accountability literacies and conflictual cooperation in community- based organisations for young people in Québec ~ Virginie Thériault Research, adult literacy and criticality: catalysing hope and dialogic caring ~ Vicky Duckworth and Rob Smith The employability skills discourse and literacy practitioners ~ Gwyneth Allatt and Lyn Tett Part II : School education Making spaces in professional learning for democratic literacy education in the early years ~ Lori McKee, Rachel Heydon and Elisabeth Davies Countering dull pedagogies: the power of teachers and artists working together ~ Pat Thomson and Christine Hall Resisting the neoliberal: parent activism in New York State against the corporate reform agenda in schooling ~ David Hursh, Sarah McGinnis, Zhe Chen and Bob Lingard Nourishing resistance and healing in dark times: teaching through a Body- Soul Rooted Pedagogy ~ Shiv Desai, Shawn Secatero, Mia Sosa- Provencio and Annmarie Sheahan Part III : Higher education Everyday activism: challenging neoliberalism for radical library workers in English higher education ~ Katherine Quinn and Jo Bates Strategies of resistance in the neoliberal university ~ Mary Hamilton Moving against and beyond neoliberal higher education in Ireland ~ Fergal Finnegan Part IV : National perspectives The appropriation of cultural, economic and normative frames of reference for adult education: an Italian perspective ~ Marcella Milana and Francesca Rapanà The marginalisation of popular education: 50 years of Danish adult education policy ~ Anne Larson and Pia Cort Adult basic education in Australia: in need of a new song sheet? ~ Keiko Yasukawa and Pamela Osmond Part V : Transnational perspectives Education policy and the European Semester: challenging soft power in hard times ~ Howard Stevenson, Alison Milner, Emily Winchip and Lesley Hagger- Vaughan Rethinking adult education for active participatory citizenship and resistance in Europe ~ George K. Zarifi s Leaving no one behind: bringing equity and inclusion back into education ~ Carlos Vargas- Tamez Afterword: resources of hope ~ Mary Hamilton and Lyn Tett
