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A typology of schools across the four nations of the United Kingdom: Class, race and geography

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper we analyse the hierarchical field of schools across the United Kingdom during the transition to university and suggest that there are five socially distinct clusters of schools. Our five‐cluster typology of UK schools is composed of an established group of elite private and state schools, schools for the white rural and suburban ...
Sol Gamsu, Håkan Forsberg
wiley   +1 more source

The Fragility of Things: Self-Organizing Processes, Neoliberal Fantasies, and Democratic Activism by William E. Connolly [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Review of William E. Connolly\u27s The Fragility of Things: Self-Organizing Processes, Neoliberal Fantasies, and Democratic ...
McCormack, Brian
core   +1 more source

Towards a synthesized critique of neoliberal biodiversity conservation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
During the last three decades, the arena of biodiversity conservation has largely aligned itself with the globally dominant political ideology of neoliberalism and associated governmentalities.
Adams B.   +69 more
core   +1 more source

The absent presence of disability in British higher education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Rates of disability disclosure are steadily increasing in British higher education (HE), with 18% of the student population having a known disability in 2023/24. It might be assumed that progress is being made with increased representation, rights and support for disabled students.
G. Koutsouris   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Resilience: an all-encompassing solution to global problems? A biopolitical analysis of resilience in the policies of EC, FEMA, UNDP, USAID, WB, and WEF [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This thesis examines the use of resilience in international policy-making. A concept that originally meant an ability of ecosystems to absorb disturbance has not only been welcomed in many disciplines outside ecology, but lately become popular in the ...
Jakola, Iiris
core  

Governance, rational choice and new public management (npm): a general view (and some critics) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This article aims to study the New Public Management (NPM), one of the main trends associated to neoliberalism. It studies governance to show its general, wider and abstract scope.
de Oliveira Fornasier, M.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

To protect and preserve? Explaining the gap between structural and superficial racial equality regimes in North Atlantic Rim universities

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how UK and US universities manage racial equality regimes through governance structures that prioritise institutional reputation over substantive racial justice reform. Drawing on Bourdieu's field, habitus and capital theory, the study demonstrates how universities neutralise racial justice efforts through bureaucratic ...
David Roberts
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Secular Liberalism

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 2018
While many scholars have focused on questions of non- or post-secularity vis-à-vis the “modern nation state,” fewer have asked what kind of decolonial redemption is possible under global neoliberal capitalism today.
Sarah Marusek
doaj   +1 more source

Making history beyond neoliberalism: Response to Roper [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Roper (2011a, p. 39) sums up his account of neoliberalism in New Zealand with the following conclusion: “In the absence of a major upsurge in working class and social movement struggle, the neoliberal policy regime is likely to remain firmly in place ...
Neilson, David
core   +1 more source

From paradise lost to paradise regained: A compassionate retuning of assessed seminars

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Universities often aim to deliver a curriculum that is both research‐based and develops transferable skills in students, thereby enhancing their competitiveness in the job market. At the same time, evidence indicates that university students experience significant stress owing to the competitive nature of the assessments, an aspect that is ...
Sarah Stephen
wiley   +1 more source

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