I came across this curiosity to pass along to the group. Not
sure what it means
but a head's up seems to be in order.
ABSTRACT Public schooling has been kidnapped. The author
examines how this happened
– since we all know very well who did it. How did public schooling
become a hostage of
world’s neo-rightist political processes? This article attempts to
unveil some of those
strategies that underpin the very core of the neo-rightist current
triumphalistic posture. To
understand the way neo-rightist political processes encompassed public
schooling at such a
frightening pace it is necessary to situate neoliberal policies based
on what has been called
the third hegemony of historical capitalism. Also it is necessary to be
aware of (a) how
particular key concepts and practices have been cleverly and gradually
twisted and
perverted, positively hijacked from the social sphere, and coined
within an economic
flavoured materiality, and (b) how the new rightist triumphalism is
deeply enmeshed within
the politics of the common sense and the role that the media plays in
building a particular
commonsensical framework. The article ends by taking the Portuguese
reality as an
example, not only denouncing the poor record of some of the graduate
and teaching
education courses within the universities and colleges, but stating the
need to rescue
democracy by reinventing it.
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