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Chapter 9 examines the neoliberal perspective and how it challenges the traditional roles of schools in distributing access to schools, grades, and pedagogies. Under neoliberalism, the state intervenes to provide the conditions necessary for optimal market operation and control of the school system. Accountability and marketization are central themes in the neoliberal discourse on educational justice. For instance, school choice is part of a market-oriented justice discourse that strongly influences access to schools. Testing requirements are increased, in keeping with the accountability approach in evaluating students’ achievements. This policy is designed to foster competition and promote privatization, particularly among marginalized groups. Finally, pedagogies are governed by a new notion of managerialism that stresses efficiency and competition rather than teachers’ professional autonomy and concern with learning. The chapter discusses the shortcomings of the neoliberal education justice discourse and its susceptibility to local neoconservative values, manifested, for example, in the religionization of Israeli education. |
