Research
These research papers and articles are on the theme of neo-liberalism’s attacks on education systems world wide and resistance to them. www.teachersolidarity.com would welcome new material. Please send to mary@teachersolidarity.com
Lars Dahlstrom - Teachers or Television Screens?
This article combines analysis from teacher education in Ethiopia and Namibia with recent examples of neo-liberal influences on national education sectors. The article describes the national teacher education reforms and analyses the forces and damages of the ‘liberal virus’ by looking at the plasma television teacher phenomenon in Ethiopia and the travel and traverse of critical practitioner inquiry (CPI) in Namibia. . Click HERE to download the full paper.
Lars Dahlstrom - Education in Danger
This paper by Swedish academic Lars Dahlstrom demonstrates the parallels between measures like PISA in the Global North and the EFA agenda in the Global South, two sides of the same neo-liberal coin of surveillance and control.
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Last Edited: April 08 2009 08:31 pm