The Impacts of Neoliberal Discourse and Language in Education - Critical Perspectives on a Rhetoric of Equality, Well-Being, and Justice (Paperback)

This edited collection combines quantitative content and critical discourse analysis to reveal a shift in the rhetoric used as part of the neoliberal agenda in education. It does so by analysing, uncovering, and commenting on language as a central tool of education. Focussing on vocabulary, metaphors, and slogans used in strategy documents, advertising, policy, and public discourse, the text illustrates how concepts such as justice, opportunity, well-being, talent, and disadvantage have been hijacked by educational institutes, governments, and universities. Showing how neoliberalism has changed discourses about education and educational policy, these chapters trace issues such as anti-intellectualism, commercialization, meritocracy, and an erasure of racial difference back to a contradictory growth in egalitarian rhetoric. Given its global scope, this volume offers a timely intervention in the studies of neoliberalism and education by developing a holistic vision of how the language of neoliberalism has changed how we think about education. It will prove to be an essential resource for scholars and researchers working at the intersections of education, policymaking, and neoliberalism.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Studies in Education, Neoliberalism, and Marxism
Release date:	September 2022
First published:	2021
Editors:	Mitja Sardoc
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	234
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-72417-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Philosophy of education Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > Discourse analysis Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > General
LSN:	0-367-72417-0
Barcode:	9780367724177

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