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ERIC Number: EJ1145349
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
Pages: 19
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ISSN: ISSN-0159-6306
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Envisioning an Alternative to the Neoliberalization of Education in the Global South: The Aga Khan's Philosophies of Education
Khoja-Moolji, Shenila S.
Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, v38 n4 p542-560 2017
Studies in education over the past decade highlight the hijacking of educational agendas by neoliberal rationalities and logics. I illustrate these processes in relation to transnational campaigns for girls' education, where the purpose of "education" is reduced to producing wage-based labor and an accumulation of skills that enhance labor flexibility. "Girls" are primarily articulated as economic actors: potential consumers, labor, and/or entrepreneurs. This reduction of individuals and social projects to economic logics calls for counter-discourses. I delineate one (among many possible) alternate framing of education by foregrounding muslim epistemologies. I present the views of the Shi'i muslim leader, His Highness the Aga Khan, about education, its purpose, and its entanglement with international development. Through a close reading and coding of over 30 public speeches and interviews of the Aga Khan between 1994 and 2015, I outline three salient themes pertaining to self, community, and meaningful life that cast doubt around the reduction of education to economic logics.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Information Analyses
Education Level: Elementary Education; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Pakistan
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