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The Neoliberal Capitalist Assault on Comprehensive Education: Ensuring the Production of Labour Power and Combating the Threat of 'Over-Education'
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Stephen Beresford; Alpesh Maisuria – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2024
In this article, we posit a Marxist critique of the way that neoliberal capitalism has thwarted the possibility of comprehensive education. We begin with an explanation of the unique productive capacity of human labour, and the centrality of labour power for capitalism. We go on to show the importance of the education system for continually…
Descriptors: High Schools, Neoliberalism, Social Systems, Labor Force Development
Struggling for Girls' Education: Coalition Strategies of Norwegian and German Women's Rights Activists in Comparative-Historical Perspective
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Katharina Sass – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2024
This paper explores how girls' education developed in Norway and Prussia (and later North Rhine-Westphalia, NRW) during the first and second wave of women's political mobilisation. It analyses how organisations and activists of the women's movement were included in different cross-interest coalitions in education politics. The cases are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Womens Education, Feminism
Reforming Education through the Lenses of Competence-Based Education: A Marxist Critique
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Bang, Nji Clement; Kum, Henry Asei – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2023
Education policy ambitions or presumptions in most countries are being accused of turning schools into social factories to supply humanpower to produce commodities. This is apparent bureaucratic education policy imposition on school-actors which promotes class division and conflict in sharing resources. Using the Marxist-critical-lenses, this…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Educational Change, Political Attitudes, English (Second Language)
Blue-Collar Affluence in a Remote Mining Town: Challenging the Modernist Myth of Education
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Forsey, Martin – Ethnography and Education, 2015
Based on research in Karratha, a remote resource town in Western Australia, this paper explores the ways in which blue-collar affluence disturbs the meritocratic mythology of formal education. In the opening decade of the twenty-first century Karratha was one of Australia's most affluent towns, yet its adult population was characterised by a level…
Descriptors: Mining, Rural Areas, Working Class, Foreign Countries
Doing Class Analysis in Singapore's Elite Education: Unravelling the Smokescreen of "Meritocratic Talk"
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Koh, Aaron – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2014
This paper examines the specificity of the education-class nexus in an elite independent school in Singapore. It seeks to unravel the puzzle that meritocracy is dogmatically believed in Singapore in spite of evidences that point to the contrary. The paper draws on discursive (analysis of media materials) and institutional (analysis of interview…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Class, Private Schools, High Schools
Preparing for Power in Elite Boarding Schools and in Working-Class Schools
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Finn, Patrick J. – Theory Into Practice, 2012
Elite boarding schools endeavor to instill in their students elite-class solidarity, strong beliefs in both meritocracy and the essential rightness of the status quo, and practical political know-how. Each of these objectives is wholly compatible with the self-interest of their students and their families. In the vast majority of working-class…
Descriptors: Social Class, Boarding Schools, Social Status, Cultural Capital