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Kirk, David – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2020
This paper provides an account of programmes in schools developed by the Mindfulness in Schools Project (MISP) as an example of the outsourcing of Health and Physical Education. The purpose of the paper is to show that outsourcing, is complex and does not match some of the expectations associated with this neoliberal practice. Responding to the…
Descriptors: Outsourcing, Metacognition, Health Education, Physical Education
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Saito, Eisuke; Atencio, Matthew – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2015
Under neo-liberal policies in many countries, there has been an extensive trend of educational reform which intensifies competition. Such educational reform is underpinned by direct government control, seen in centre to periphery forms of policy administration and implementation with strong emphasis on managerialism and test-oriented…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Social Justice, Educational Change