Neoliberalism and Education Systems in Conflict Exploring Challenges Across the Globe

Neoliberalism and Education Systems in Conflict: Exploring Challenges Across the Globe explores how neoliberal values are imprinted onto educational spaces and practices, and by consequence, fundamentally reshape how we come to understand the educational experience at the school or system level. Countries across the globe struggle with the residual effects of increased accountability, choice/voucher systems, and privatization.

The first section of the book discusses the direct imprint of neoliberal policies on educational spaces. The next section examines the more indirect outcomes of neoliberalism, including the challenges of inequity, access, violence, racism, and social justice issues as a result of neoliberal ideologies. Each section of the book includes case studies about education systems across the globe, including Britain, Middle East, Turkey, United States, China, and Chile written by international contributors.

Neoliberalism and Education Systems in Conflict is essential reading for educators, scholars, and faculty of educational leadership and policy globally.

1. A Call to Explore and Map the Educatıonal Challenges under Neolıberalısm across the Globe

Part I: Challenges of Markets, Poverty and Privatization

2. Challenges of School Principals and Teachers in Private Schools: Comparison of Two Cases in the Middle East

3. Neolıberal Challenges in Public Schools in Hong Kong: An East Asian Model?

4. Principals’ Leadership Tensioned by Market Pressures in Chile

5. Polıcy-Practıce Decouplıng: Education Inspection Reform in China

6.Issues in Pre- and Primary School Education in Rural Turkey: Teachers’ Experiences and Perspectives

7. Stepping Up or Stepping Aside? The Necessity of Balancing Promise with Critique

8 Neoliberalism—the straw that broke the back of Lebanon’s Education System

9.The neoliberal challenge to leading in disadvantaged public primary schools in Victoria, Australia

Part II: Challenges of Immigration, Conflict and Social Injustice

10. Educational Administration Challenges in the Destabilised and Disintegrating States of Syria and Yemen: The Intersectionality of Violence, Culture, Ideology, Class/Status Group and Postcoloniality

11. Commonalities in schools and education systems around the world shifting from welfarism to neo liberalism; are the kids okay?

12.Doing Social Justice Leadership in Challenging Circumstances: Principals’ Perspectives

13. How Leaders of Outstandıng Muslım Schools in England Interpret Islamıc Educatıonal Values in a Neolıberal Clımate: ‘Brıtısh Values’ and Market Competıtıon

Concluding Remarks: The Global/Local Nexus of School Challenges under Neoliberal Policies: What Next?

Khalid Arar is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy, College of Education at Texas State University, Texas, USA.

Deniz Örücü is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy at Başkent University Faculty of Education, Ankara, Turkey.

Jane Wilkinson is Professor of Educational Leadership at Monash University and an adjunct in the School of Education at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia.