Developing World and State Education

Dave Hill, Professor of Education Policy (University of Northampton, England), Chief Editor of the Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies (www.jceps.com), has published ten books and lectures worldwide. He was Labour Parliamentary candidate, Labour Council Group Leader, trade union regional leader, and co-founded the Hillcole Group of Radical Left Educators.Ellen Rosskam is Southeast Europe Policy Scholar at the Southeast Europe Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars conducting research on the liberalization of education in Turkey. She is Visiting Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA, Work Environment Department and Visiting Senior Fellow at University of Surrey, European Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, England. Dr. Rosskam is a public health and social protection specialist working internationally. She has led research projects at the regional, national and global level, and has worked in over 40 countries.

• Foreword Dave Hill 1. Introduction Ellen Rosskam 2. Neoliberalism and Education in Latin America: Entrenched Problems, Emerging Alternatives Adam Davidson-Harden and Daniel Schugurensky 3. World Bank and the Privatization of Public Education: A Mexican Perspective Gian Carlo Delgado-Ramos and John Saxe-Fernández 4. Argentina: Growth, Height, and Crisis of Teachers’ Opposition to Neoliberal Reforms 1991-2001 Julián Gindin 5. Venezuela: Higher Education, Neoliberalism and Socialism Thomas Muhr and Antoni Verger 6. Legacy Against Possibility: 25 Years of Neo-liberal Policy in Chile Jill Pinkney Pastrana 7. A Class Perspective on the New Actors and Their Demands from the Turkish Education System Fuat Ercan and Ferda Uzunyayla 8. The Neo-Liberalization of Education Services (Not Including Higher Education): Impacts on Workers’ Socio-Economic Security, Access to Services, Democratic Accountability and Equity: A Case Study of Pakistan Ahmad Mukhtar 9. State, Inequality and Politics of Capital: The Neoliberal Scourge in Education Ravi Kumar 10. Global and Neoliberal Forces at Work in Education in Burkina Faso: The Resistance of Education Workers Touorouzou Hervé Somé 11. From “Abjectivity” to Subjectivity: Education Research and Resistance in South Africa Salim Vally, Enver Motala and Brian Ramadiro 12. Mozambique: Neocolonialism and the Remasculinization of Democracy João M. Paraskeva 13. From the State to the Market? China’s Education at a Crossroads Ka Ho Mok and Yat Wai Lo

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