The Impact of Neoliberalism on the Right to Education: Limits and Proposals

Vincenzo Bonazza () and Silvio Soffritti
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Vincenzo Bonazza: University of Pegaso
Silvio Soffritti: University of Pegaso

Chapter Chapter 14 in Economic Systems and Human Rights, 2024, pp 249-265 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In a way that is not always explicit, the ideal of the homo oeconomicus is spreading even within school walls: a kind of economization centred in the neoliberal ideal is taking possession of educational systems, and if we go in search of the red thread that guides this process, we will find that it fits within the model of “human capital”. It is up to pedagogical and sociological thought to question itself in order to help stem the rise of the ideology of an economic system, as the neoliberalist one has become, which over the years is leaving out issues related to community or collective values that are important in order to restore centrality to people in their relational and social dimensions.

Keywords: Post-modernity; Delocalization; Desocialized individuals; Globalization; Neo-capitalist transactions; Acentric and headless power groups; Hypercompetitiveness; Ultra-free market; Social classes; Hyper-pauperism; Capitalism and communism; Keynesian policies; Liberal thinking; Government; Mont Pélerin Society; Privatizing the State; “Class struggle”; Homo oeconomicus; The marketplace; Equality of opportunity; Economizing the school (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-72866-2_14

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