NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Neoliberalism and Atomised, Disaggregated Gig Academy Workers: A Challenge for HR Professionals in the Higher Education Sector?
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Andrew Boocock – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2025
In this article the role of Human Resource Management (HRM) in the UK Higher Education (HE) sector is interrogated, with a focus on the Gig Academy. A literature review of the casualisation of academics in the sector is undertaken and critiqued through the consultative unitarist values and behaviours of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, College Faculty, Part Time Faculty, Adjunct Faculty
Paulo Freire's Ideas as an Alternative to Higher Education Neo-Liberal Reforms in Latin America
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Espinoza, Oscar – Journal of Moral Education, 2017
This article examines the principal arguments found in the work of Paulo Freire concerning policy and ethics in the field of higher education in Latin America. It critically analyzes the university reform in Latin America dominated by the thought and practice promoted by various international financial institutions (such as the World Bank and the…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Neoliberalism, Educational Change, Ethics
College for All in Capitalist America: The Post-Secondary Emphasis in the Neoliberal Age
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Kolluri, Suneal; Tierney, William – Tertiary Education and Management, 2018
College for All approaches to secondary education have gained prominence over recent decades. This trend has resulted in scholarly criticism. College is inappropriate for many students, and insisting that all students attend ensures failure, frustration and debt. The College for All policy, intended to enhance democratic equality and undermine…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Higher Education, Democratic Values, Critical Theory
The State, Markets and Higher Education Reform in Botswana
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Tabulawa, Richard; Polelo, Mino; Silas, Onalenna – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2013
Market forces are being introduced in public spheres such as higher education and public health, which hitherto were closed to such forces. Ironically, it is the state that is responsible for this process of marketisation. Some see this state action as leading to a growing influence of the state in public policy while others see an attenuation of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Health, Governance, Neoliberalism
"We Teach All Hearts to Break": On the Incompatibility of Education with Schooling at All Levels, and the Renewed Need for a De-Schooling of Society
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Garland, Christian – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2012
Education is for anarchism, and what can very broadly be termed "autonomism"--that is, the many different schools of non-Leninist Marxism--of paramount importance in creating a society worthy of humanity, but this is not a simple formula of countering the dominant mode of institutional indoctrination known as schooling with libertarian…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Criticism, Secondary Education, Higher Education
Obama's American Graduation Initiative: Race, Conservative Modernization, and a Logic of Abstraction
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Kuntz, Aaron M.; Gildersleeve, Ryan Evely; Pasque, Penny A. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2011
The American Graduation Initiative stands as the cornerstone of the Obama administration's higher education agenda. To investigate the state of the politics of education in the Age of Obama, this article employs critical discourse analysis to unveil the hidden meanings and ideological commitments inherent in Obama's policy discourse. Read within…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Presidents, Agenda Setting, Politics