Neoliberalization and managerialization of 'education' in England and Wales: a case for reconstructing education

Abstract

This paper argues that the neoliberalization of education in England, begun in the 1980s, is having profoundly harmful effects on the lives of individuals and society. Neoliberalism represents a shift away from the post-war social democratic notion of universal „citizenship‟ rights/identities toward a system of individual consumer rights/identitie