| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781780995786 |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Call number |
370.1 |
| MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Authors |
Blacker, David J. |
| TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The falling rate of learning and the neoliberal endgame / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
David J. Blacker |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
ix, 308 p. ; |
| Size |
22 cm |
| GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Formerly CIP. |
| Institution to which field applies |
Uk |
| SUMMARY |
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| Summary |
The current neoliberal mutation of capitalism has evolved beyond the days when the wholesale exploitation of labor underwrote the world system's expansion. While "normal" business profits plummet and theft-by-finance rises, capitalism now shifts into a mode of elimination that targets most of us--along with our environment--as waste products awaiting managed disposal. The education system is caught in the throes of this eliminationism across a number of fronts: crushing student debt, impatience with student expression, the looting of vestigial public institutions and, finally, as coup de grâce, an abandonment of the historic ideal of universal education. "Education reform" is powerless against eliminationism and is at best a mirage that diverts oppositional energies. The very idea of education activism becomes a comforting fiction. Educational institutions are strapped into the eliminationist project--the neoliberal endgame--in a way that admits no escape, even despite the heroic gestures of a few. The school systems that capitalism has built and directed over the last two centuries are fated to go down with the ship. It is rational therefore for educators to cultivate a certain pessimism. Should we despair? Why, yes, we should--but cheerfully, as confronting elimination, mortality, is after all our common fate. There is nothing and everything to do in order to prepare. |
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| Summary |
Our education system is chained to the hold of a sinking capitalist ship. Is there any escape? |
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| Topical Heading |
Education |
| General |
Philosophy |
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| Topical Heading |
Education |
| General |
Forecasting |
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| Topical Heading |
Learning |
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| Topical Heading |
Neoliberalism |
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Education -- Economic aspects |
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Education, Higher -- Economic aspects |
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Educational change |
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Educational evaluation |
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| Topical Heading |
Capitalism |
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| Topical Heading |
Employment (Economic theory) |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://uowd.box.com/s/90z38a4n05g6hz1hq9d5myqrd3wywrsw |
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