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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Neoliberalism and Education
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Davies, Bronwyn; Bansel, Peter – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2007
The discourses and practices of neoliberalism, including government policies for education and training, public debates regarding standards and changed funding regimes, have been at work on and in schools in capitalist societies since at least the 1980s. Yet we have been hard pressed to say what neoliberalism is, where it comes from and how it…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Moral Values, Social Values, Social Influences
Subjects of Choice and Lifelong Learning
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Bansel, Peter – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2007
This paper addresses some of the discursive practices of neoliberal government through which the subject is constituted as a subject of choice--subjects whose life trajectory is shaped by the imperatives of a labour market in which they will become mobile and flexible workers with multiple careers and jobs. Mobility among these multiple careers…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Lifelong Learning, Free Enterprise System, Economic Impact