Resisting Neoliberalism in Education

Lyn Tett is Professor of Community Education at the University of Huddersfield and Professor Emerita at the University of Edinburgh. Mary Hamilton is Professor Emerita of Adult Learning and Literacy in the Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University.

• Foreword: the imperative to resist ~ Kathleen LynchIntroduction: resisting neoliberalism in education ~ Lyn Tett and Mary HamiltonPart I : Adult educationAccountability literacies and conflictual cooperation in community- based organisations for young people in Québec ~ Virginie ThériaultResearch, adult literacy and criticality: catalysing hope and dialogic caring ~ Vicky Duckworth and Rob SmithThe employability skills discourse and literacy practitioners ~ Gwyneth Allatt and Lyn TettPart II : School educationMaking spaces in professional learning for democratic literacy education in the early years ~ Lori McKee, Rachel Heydon and Elisabeth DaviesCountering dull pedagogies: the power of teachers and artists working together ~ Pat Thomson and Christine HallResisting the neoliberal: parent activism in New York State against the corporate reform agenda in schooling ~ David Hursh, Sarah McGinnis, Zhe Chen and Bob LingardNourishing resistance and healing in dark times: teaching through a Body- Soul Rooted Pedagogy ~ Shiv Desai, Shawn Secatero, Mia Sosa- Provencio and Annmarie SheahanPart III : Higher educationEveryday activism: challenging neoliberalism for radical library workers in English higher education ~ Katherine Quinn and Jo BatesStrategies of resistance in the neoliberal university ~ Mary HamiltonMoving against and beyond neoliberal higher education in Ireland ~ Fergal FinneganPart IV : National perspectivesThe appropriation of cultural, economic and normative frames of reference for adult education: anItalian perspective ~ Marcella Milana and Francesca RapanàThe marginalisation of popular education: 50 years of Danish adult education policy ~ Anne Larson and Pia CortAdult basic education in Australia: in need of a new song sheet? ~ Keiko Yasukawa and Pamela OsmondPart V : Transnational perspectivesEducation policy and the European Semester: challenging soft power in hard times ~ Howard Stevenson, Alison Milner, Emily Winchip and Lesley Hagger- VaughanRethinking adult education for active participatory citizenship and resistance in Europe~ George K. Zarifi sLeaving no one behind: bringing equity and inclusion back into education ~ Carlos Vargas- TamezAfterword: resources of hope ~ Mary Hamilton and Lyn Tett

“This book brings together an impressive international group of researchers to focus on challenging neoliberalism in education. I would recommend this book not only for the ideas it discusses, but also for the practices of resistance the authors detail in depth.” Leona M. English, St. Francis Xavier University