Transcript American Education Research Association Annual Conference 7

Canadian Society for the Study of Education
Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
31 May- 3 Jun 2008
Educational Perversion and Global Neoliberalism
Dave Hill
University of Northampton, UK
Chief Editor, Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies
www.jceps.com
Summary
1.
Need to Contextualise Educational Change within Capitalism and its
current stage, neoliberalism. Also within Neoconservatism.
2.
The Current Neoliberal Project of Global Capitalism: its Motivation,
Demands and its (‘raced’ and gendered social class) effects
3.
Capital’s Business Plan for Education: Business Agenda FOR
Schools; Business Agenda IN Schools; Business Agenda
Internationally
4.
Restraining and Resisting Neoliberalism: The Resistant Role of
Critical Cultural Workers
5.
Wider than Pedagogy and Curriculum: Arenas for action by critical
transformative socialist educators
6.
Where to go from here? Resources.
Context and Impacts of Neoliberal (and
Neoconservative) Education Policies
Social Class and Class War from Above
The class impacts of Neoliberal Policies in Education in
Britain and The USA (and elsewhere) include:
(1) widening (`raced’ and gendered) social class educational
inequalities;
(2) weakening key working class organisations such as
trade unions and democratically elected municipal
government;
(3) worsening pay, benefits and working conditions of
workers in education- the intensification of labour and of
the extraction of surplus value from workers’ labour
power.
Results of the Neoliberalisation of Education
1: Loss of Equity, Economic and Social Justice and the
Polarisation of the Labour Force
2: Loss of Democracy and Democratic Accountability
3: Loss of Democracy and Collegiality by the workers
4: Loss of Critical Thought.
5: Loss of the Hope of Global Equity
6: Loss of Workers’ Securities
Effects on Workers’ Securities
Case Studies in JCEPS, in the Wayne Ross- Rich Gibson
edited book, in the forthcoming Brad Porfilio and Curry
Mallot book, and the forthcoming Routledge and
Neoliberalism Series. Also see Dave Hill online articles
Capitalist Education Agendas
1.
Agenda In education: profits, direct or indirect
2.
Agenda For education: hierarchically and differently skilled
labour power PLUS ideological acquiescence
3.
Agenda For education corporations: that are nationally based
profiting within the global economy
Case Study in England and Wales: Detheorized Teacher Education
`How to' has replaced 'why to' in a technicist curriculum based on
'delivery' of a quietist and overwhelmingly conservative set of
'standards' for student teachers.
Teachers are now, by and large, trained in skills rather than
educated to examine the `whys and the why nots' and the
contexts of curriculum, pedagogy, educational purposes and
structures and the effects these have on reproducing capitalist
economy, society and politics.
Different types of oppositional/ critical theory… all have political
implications, from analysis to (in)action
Critical Thinking
Ken Zeichner, Dan Liston, Tom Popkewitz
Critical Pedagogy (usually incorporating/ based on Freirean ideas)
Ira Shor, Henry Giroux, Peter McLaren
Other Identitarian Critical Pedagogies..e.g. feminist, queer, antiracist, and currently, Critical Race Theory
Patti Lather, Judith Butler, David Gillborn
Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy/ Socialist Education
McLaren post mid-1990s, Paula Allman, Teresa Ebert, ‘The British
Marxists’ (Glenn Rikowski, Mike Cole, Dave Hill, Jane Kelly,
Terry Wrigley, Nick Grant).. and thousands of activists… this is
grounded in Marxism and explicitly calls for the replacement of
Capitalism by Socialism
On Reforms
Marx and Engels 1977 [1847], p. 62) , we need to:
fight for the attainment of the immediate aims, for the enforcement
of the momentary interests of the working class; but in the
movement of the present, they also represent and take care of
the future of the movement
And, in any case, reforms are not necessarily simply part of
“minimum programme” realizable in the here and now of
capitalist conditions and quiescent within them’. They can be in
the nature of a kind of `transitional’ demand: a reform whose
implementation would breach the framework of the current
bourgeois order’ Leon Trotsky (e.g. Trotsky, 1938).
Reforms (and critical pedagogy) not enough!: The Task
of Socialist Educators
1.
to expose and organise and teach against the actual violence
by the capitalist state and class against the `raced’ and
gendered) working class;
2. to expose the ways in which they perpetuate and reproduce
their power, that of their class, through the ideological and
repressive apparatuses of the state (such as the media, the
schooling, further education and university systems;
3. in particular the way they do this through demeaning and
deriding the `cultural capital’ and knowledges of the (`raced’
and gendered) working class through what Pierre Bourdieu
termed `cultural arbitrary’ and `symbolic violence’ – the way
working class kids are largely taught they are crap, and
upper class kids are taught they will control and inherit the
earth, and some middle class kids are taught how to manage
it for them;
4. argue for, propagate, organise, agitate for and implement
democratic Marxist egalitarian change and policy- to move
from deconstruction to reconstruction.
Class Consciousness
The key task, for Marxist educators- indeed Marxist- is class and
class consciousness.
In The Poverty of Philosophy [1847] Marx distinguishes a 'class-initself' (class position) and a 'class-for itself' (class
consciousness) and, in The Communist Manifesto (Marx and
Engels, 1848), explicitly identifies the 'formation of the
proletariat into a class' as the key political task facing the
communists.
Socialist/ Marxist Pedagogy/ Curriculum Schooling for
Economic and Social Justice
McLaren (2000) extends the “critical education” project into
“revolutionary pedagogy”, which is clearly based on a Marxist
metanarrative. Revolutionary pedagogy:
would place the liberation from race, class and gender oppression as
the key goal for education for the new millennium. Education… so
conceived would be dedicated to creating a citizenry dedicated to
social justice and to the reinvention of social life based on
democratic socialist ideals. (p. 196)
Socialist Educators need to go beyond critique into action: importance
of theory and analysis…also of action, action in different arenas
…..need more actual examples and practice published/ disseminated,
from the tens of thousands of contemporary and historical
examples of socialist/ egalitarian/ revolutionary pedagogy,
curriculum, organisation of schooling… lots happening globally!
Richard Brosio (2008)
Marx(ism) and neat lesson plans:
Marx never provided a neat lesson plan for an alternative model to
capitalism. Instead, he told us that if we come to understand
capitalism, most of us will oppose it; however, we will have to
figure out what to construct as we struggle against the system
in our place and time. (Brosio, 2008)
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March 2003
• The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies is published by
IEPS, the Institute for Education Policy Studies, an independent
Radical Left/ Socialist/ Marxist institute for developing analysis of
education policy. It is at www.ieps.org.uk The Journal JCEPS seeks
to develop Marxist analysis of policy, theory, ideology and policy
development.
• The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies seeks and
publishes articles that critique global, national, neo-liberal, neoconservative, New Labour, Third Way, and postmodernist analyses
and policy, together with articles that attempt to report on, analyse
and develop socialist/Marxist transformative policy for schooling and
education from a number of Radical Left perspectives, including
Freirean perspectives. JCEPS also addresses issues of Social
Class, 'Race', Gender and Capital/ism; Critical Pedagogy; New
Public Managerialism and Academic / non-Academic labour, and
Empowerment/ Disempowerment. The journal therefore welcomes
articles from academics and activists throughout the globe. It is a
refereed / peer juried international journal.
• Volume 6, Number 1:
Contents of latest edition of The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies (vol 6(2), May 2008)
May 2008
Ravi Kumar
Against Neoliberal Assault on Education in India: A Counternarrative of Resistance
Richard A. Brosio
Marxist Thought: Still Primus Inter Pares for Understanding and Opposing the Capitalist System
Alex Means
Neoliberalism and the Politics of Disposability: Education, Urbanization, and Displacement in the New Chicago
Adam Davidson-Harden
Re-branding Neoliberalism and Systemic Dilemmas in Social Development: The Case of Education and School Fees in Latin America
Philip Kovacs
Neointellectuals: Willing Tools on a Veritable Crusade
Raquel Goulart Barreto
Recontextualizing Information and Communication Technologies: The Discourse of Educational Policies in Brazil (1995-2007)
Isaac N. Obasi
World University Rankings in a Market-driven Knowledge Society: Implications for African Universities
İlker C.Bıçakçı
The capitalistic function of education-directed social responsibility projects in Turkey within the context of relationships between the p
sector and NGOs
Kariane Westrheim
Prison as Site for Political Education: Educational experiences from prison narrated by members and sympathisers of the PKK
Sima Sadeghi
Critical Pedagogy in an EFL Teaching context :An ignis fatuus or an Alternative Approach?
Martin Power
“Crossing the Sahara without water”: experiencing class inequality through the Back to Education Allowance Welfare to Education pro
Elaine Hampton
U.S. Economic Influences on Mexican Curriculum in Maquiladora Communities: Crossing the Colonization Line?
Richard D. Lakes
The Neoliberal Rhetoric of Workforce Readiness
Michael Corbett
The Edumometer: The commodification of learning from Galton to the PISA
Liz Jackson
Reconsidering Affirmative Action in Education as a Good for the Disadvantaged
Julia Hall, Kelvin McQueen
Review Symposium: Mike Cole Marxism and Educational Theory: Origins and issues (2008, London: Routledge)
• Want more?
See the Wayne Ross and
Rich Gibson book
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Google:
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dave hill marxist
education and neoliberalism dave hill routledge
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macrine david gabbard peter mclaren
Marxist work by British Marxists Glenn Rikowski and
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by Mike Cole
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Mike Cole
• Google him and his online
analysis
• e.g. The Volumizer
Socialist/ Marxist Analysis and Action, and Revolutionary Critical
Pedagogy
Some is published in online journals such as
1. The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies (www.jceps.com)
2. Cultural Logic (at http://clogic.eserver.org/)
3. Workplace, a Journal of Academic Labor
(http://www.cust.educ.ubc.ca/workplace/)
4. Public Resistance
(http://web.mac.com/publicresistance/iWeb/publicresistance/Public%20Resi
stance.html)
5. Radical Notes
(http://radicalnotes.com/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/)
6. In the UK, The Socialist Teachers’ Alliance (http://www.socialist-teacher.org/)
7. in the USA, the Rouge Forum (http://www.rougeforum.org/)
8. International Viewpoint (online at http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/)
Schooling and Equality: Fact, Concept and Policy Dave Hill and Mike
Cole
Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational
Theory by Dave Hill, Peter McLaren, Mike Cole,
and Glenn Rikowski
Routledge: Studies in Education and Neoliberalism,
2008… due out over the next few months
• Global Neoliberalism and Education and its Consequences
• Editors: Dave Hill; Ravi Kumar
• Contesting Neoliberal Education: Public Resistance and
Collective Advance. Editor: Dave Hill
• The Developing World and State Education: Neoliberal
Depredation and Egalitarian Alternatives. Editors: Dave Hill;
Ellen Rosskam
• The Rich World and the Impoverishment of Education:
Diminishing Democracy, Equity and Workers’ Rights. Editor:
Dave Hill
For more Dave Hill, google
• dave hill education policy
• dave hill marxist
• education and neoliberalism dave
hill routledge
• the hillcole group
• The institute for education policy
studies www.ieps.org.uk
• Email
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Recent online articles by Dave Hill
Hill, D. (2007) Education: Their Agenda and Ours. Socialist Resistance, 49. Sept. Online at
http://www.socialistresistance.net/49resistance.pdf
Hill, D. (2007) Socialist Educators and Capitalist Education. Socialist Outlook, 13. Online at
http://www.isg-fi.org.uk/spip.php?article576
Hill, D. and Boxley, S. (2007) Critical Teacher Education for Economic, Environmental and
Social Justice: an Ecosocialist Manifesto. Journal for Critical education Policy Studies, 5(1).
Online at http://www.jceps.com/index.php?pageID=article&articleID=96
Hill, D. (2007) Critical Teacher Education, New Labour in Britain, and the Global Project of
Neoliberal Capital. Policy Futures, 5 (2) pp. 204-225. Online at
http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pfie/content/pdfs/5/issue5_2.asp
Greaves, N., Hill, D. and Maisuria, A. (2007) Embourgeoisment, Immiseration, Commodification
- Marxism Revisited: a Critique of Education in Capitalist Systems. Journal for Critical
education Policy Studies, 5(1).Online at
http://www.jceps.com/index.php?pageID=article&articleID=83
Hill, D. (2006) Class, Capital and Education in this Neoliberal/ Neoconservative Period.
Information for Social Change, 23. Online at
http://libr.org/isc/issues/ISC23/B1%20Dave%20Hill.pdf
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Hill, D. and Kelsh, D. (2006) The Culturalization of Class and the Occluding of Class
Consciousness: The Knowledge Industry in/of Education. Journal for Critical Education Policy
Studies, 4 (1).
http://www.jceps.com/index.php?pageID=article&articleID=59
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Hill, D. (2004) Books, Banks and Bullets: Controlling our minds- the global project of Imperialistic
and militaristic neo-liberalism and its effect on education policy. Policy Futures in Education, 2, 34, pp. 504-522 (Theme: Marxist Futures in Education).
http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pfie/content/pdfs/2/issue2_3.asp
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Hill, D. (2004) O Neoliberalismo Global, a Resistência e a Deformação da Educação, Curriculo
sem Frontieras 3, 3 pp.24-59. (Brazil) 2004)
http://www.curriculosemfronteiras.org/
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Hill, D. (2004) Educational perversion and global neo-liberalism: a Marxist critique Cultural Logic:
an electronic journal of Marxist Theory and Practice. Online at
http://eserver.org/clogic/2004/2004.html
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Hill, D. (2003) Global Neo-Liberalism, the Deformation of Education and Resistance, Journal for
Critical Education Policy Studies, 1 (1)
http://www.jceps.com/index.php?pageID=article&articleID=7
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Hill, D. (2003) (second edition) Brief Autobiography of a Bolshie Dismissed. Brighton: Institute for
Education Policy Studies. Online at http://www.ieps.org.uk.cwc.net/bolsharticle.pdf