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The Neoliberal Educational Agenda and the Legitimation Crisis: old and new state strategies.
- Source :
- British Journal of Sociology of Education; Apr2003, Vol. 24 Issue 2, p159-175, 17p
- Publication Year :
- 2003
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Abstract
- In the context of globalisation and hegemonic neoliberalism, the state's ability to legitimate the economic system and its own policies cannot be assumed as a positive automatic effect. The economic and political conditions that once framed state action have changed, and it is reasonable to think that the emergence of a new accumulation regime implies also a shift in the traditional strategies used by the nation-state to legitimate its policy-making. This paper reviews how the neoliberal educational agenda develops a new political rationality that changes the traditional forms in which the state has managed its legitimation crisis. In addition, the paper argues that context-based factors, nationally specific, show that this political rationality may not be uniformly applied among different nation-states. The case of semiperipheral countries provides some evidence on the necessary combination of old and new strategies developed by the state to legitimate a neoliberal agenda. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- EDUCATION policy
EDUCATION
GLOBALIZATION
ECONOMIC systems
SOCIOLOGY
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01425692
- Volume :
- 24
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- British Journal of Sociology of Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 10005024
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01425690301897