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Democracy, ‘sector-blindness’ and the delegitimation of dissent in neoliberal education policy: a response to Discourse 34(2), May 2013.
- Source :
- Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education; Jul2014, Vol. 35 Issue 3, p444-461, 18p
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- As a response to the 2013 special issue ofDiscourseon marketisation and equity in education, this paper suggests it is important to understand how school sectors (independent, Catholic and government) continue to play a significant role in how we constitute education, markets and equity in Australia. The first part of this paper provides a genealogy of school funding in Australia, giving an overview of how Australia has reached the current state of ‘sector-blind’ school funding. We also focus on the shift in Australian schooling from a public good for national collective well-being to a private, positional good for individual advancement. The second part of the paper suggests that the notion of ‘sector-blindness’ is part of a depoliticisation of educational politics. We work from the premise that education is always and everywhere already a political project. We critique some absences in the special issue around ‘colour-blindness’ and in a coda to the paper, we provide the basis for renewing and politicising the debate about education policy by offering a ‘debate-redux’, that provides some possibilities about forms of democratic politics and education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- DEMOCRACY
NEOLIBERALISM
AUXILIARY sciences of history
EDUCATION & politics
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01596306
- Volume :
- 35
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 95976803
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2014.890267