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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, Immiseration Capitalism and the Historical Urgency of a Socialist Education
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Malott, Curry; Hill, Dave; Banfield, Grant – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2013
In this paper we employ the concept of "Immiseration Capitalism" to indicate a systematic tendency of Capital to heap the "accumulation of misery" on the lives of the producing class while at the same time delivering great wealth to the hands of its own appropriating class. Neoliberalism is described as a specific political…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Social Systems, Marxian Analysis, Educational Change
Immiseration Capitalism, Activism and Education: Resistance, Revolt and Revenge
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Hill, Dave – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2012
This is a panoptic paper in five parts. In Part One, Immiseration Capitalism, I examine the current neoliberal cum neoconservative austerity capitalism and its "class war from above", in particular its resultant relative immiseration and its absolute immiseration, with particular reference to Greece, Ireland, Britain and the USA. In Part Two,…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Foreign Countries, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing
Race and Class in Britain: A Critique of the Statistical Basis for Critical Race Theory in Britain: And Some Political Implications
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Hill, Dave – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2009
In this paper, the author critiques what he analyses as the misuse of statistics in arguments put forward by some Critical Race Theorists in Britain showing that "Race" "trumps" Class in terms of underachievement at 16+ exams in England and Wales. At a theoretical level, using Marxist work the author argues for a notion of "raced" and gendered…
Descriptors: Health Services, Social Class, Ethnic Groups, Underachievement
Neoliberalization and Managerialization of "Education" in England and Wales--A Case for Reconstructing Education
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Beckmann, Andrea; Cooper, Charlie; Hill, Dave – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2009
This paper argues that the neoliberalization of education in England, begun in the 1980s, is having profoundly harmful effects on the lives of individuals and society. Neoliberalism represents a shift away from the post-war social democratic notion of universal "citizenship" rights/identities toward a system of individual consumer…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Role of Education, Political Attitudes, Educational Change
Embourgeoisment, Immiseration, Commodification--Marxism Revisited: A Critique of Education in Capitalist Systems
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Greaves, Nigel M.; Hill, Dave; Maisuria, Alpesh – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2007
In this paper, we explore educational inequality through a theoretical and empirical analysis. We use classical Marxian scholarship and class-based analyses to theorise the relationship between education and the inequality in society that is an inevitable feature of capitalist society/ economy. The relationship between social class and the process…
Descriptors: Social Class, Social Systems, Equal Education, Educational Change
Critical Teacher Education for Economic, Environmental and Social Justice: An Ecosocialist Manifesto
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Hill, Dave; Boxley, Simon – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2007
In this chapter we set out a series of progressive egalitarian policy principles and proposals that constitute a democratic Marxist and ecosocialist manifesto for schooling and teacher education for economic and social justice. This is based on a democratic Marxist theoretical framework (1) and on a structuralist neo-Marxist analysis (2). We also…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Privatization, Unions, Developed Nations