Resisting Neoliberalism in Education

‘’Mary Hamilton and Lyn Tett’s edition makes a most insightful contribution to our understanding of neoliberal education as well as how to resist it.’’ Australian Universities Review

“The book sets out to answer how best practitioners, researchers and policy makers can resist the way that neoliberal ideas and institutional practices erode teaching and learning that is centred on dialogue…. very useful and stimulating collection.” International Journal of Lifelong Education

“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

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 Lynch

Introduction: resisting neoliberalism in education ~ Lyn Tett and Mary Hamilton

Part I : Adult education

Accountability literacies and conflictual cooperation in community- based organisations for young people in Québec ~ Virginie Thériault

Research, adult literacy and criticality: catalysing hope and dialogic caring ~ Vicky Duckworth and Rob Smith

The employability skills discourse and literacy practitioners ~ Gwyneth Allatt and Lyn Tett

Part II : School education

Making spaces in professional learning for democratic literacy education in the early years ~ Lori McKee, Rachel Heydon and Elisabeth Davies

Countering dull pedagogies: the power of teachers and artists working together ~ Pat Thomson and Christine Hall

Resisting the neoliberal: parent activism in New York State against the corporate reform agenda in schooling ~ David Hursh, Sarah McGinnis, Zhe Chen and Bob Lingard

Nourishing resistance and healing in dark times: teaching through a Body- Soul Rooted Pedagogy ~ Shiv Desai, Shawn Secatero, Mia Sosa- Provencio and Annmarie Sheahan

Part III : Higher education

Everyday activism: challenging neoliberalism for radical library workers in English higher education ~ Katherine Quinn and Jo Bates

Strategies of resistance in the neoliberal university ~ Mary Hamilton

Moving against and beyond neoliberal higher education in Ireland ~ Fergal Finnegan

Part IV : National perspectives

The appropriation of cultural, economic and normative frames of reference for adult education: an

Italian perspective ~ Marcella Milana and Francesca Rapanà

The marginalisation of popular education: 50 years of Danish adult education policy ~ Anne Larson and Pia Cort

Adult basic education in Australia: in need of a new song sheet? ~ Keiko Yasukawa and Pamela Osmond

Part V : Transnational perspectives

Education policy and the European Semester: challenging soft power in hard times ~ Howard Stevenson, Alison Milner, Emily Winchip and Lesley Hagger- Vaughan

Rethinking adult education for active participatory citizenship and resistance in Europe

~ George K. Zarifi s

Leaving no one behind: bringing equity and inclusion back into education ~ Carlos Vargas- Tamez

Afterword: resources of hope ~ Mary Hamilton and Lyn Tett