EDB172 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Reality, Neoliberalism
Education Policy and the Market and You as a Teacher
Lecture
• Policy central to political rule
• Policy: 'programmatic'
o Synonymous with programs, plans, designs
o A plan for '(re-) programming' social reality
• Teaching, schooling, curriculum
o Eternally optiistic… that it ca ake a differece
• Social reality is far too unpredictable to ever be controlled at the level that policy thinks it
could be controlled
Policy as a political rule (liberalism):
• Ideals of personal and economic freedoms by 19th century
• Seeks to limit the government of civil society
• Liberal formula for rule:
o Relies on knowledge - seeks to 'know' populations (economics, pedagogy, criminology)
• Policy is used to govern at distance
Policy, advanced liberalism and the market
• Informed by 'neoliberal' philosophy
• Market plays a significant role
• Market seen as a source of liberty - for individual well-being, national growth, prosperity and
progress
• Advanced liberal rule marketises the public sector
o Roles back the state to foster entrepreneurship
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Document Summary
Education policy and the market and you as a teacher. Lecture: policy central to political rule, policy: "programmatic, synonymous with programs, plans, designs, a plan for "(re-) programming" social reality, teaching, schooling, curriculum, eternally opti(cid:373)istic that it ca(cid:374) (cid:373)ake a differe(cid:374)ce. Social reality is far too unpredictable to ever be controlled at the level that policy thinks it could be controlled. Ideals of personal and economic freedoms by 19th century. Seeks to limit the government of civil society. Liberal formula for rule: relies on knowledge - seeks to "know" populations (economics, pedagogy, criminology, policy is used to govern at distance.
