Neo-Liberalism, Globalization and Human Capital Learning [electronic resource] : Reclaiming Education for Democratic Citizenship / by Emery J. Hyslop-Margison, Alan M. Sears.

Neo-Liberalism, Ideology and Education -- Democracy, Citizenship and Social Equality -- Principles of Democratic Learning -- A Conceptual Framework for Democratic Learning -- Critical Thinking and Democratic Virtues.

Throughout the world, neoliberalism functions to decouple learning from the most important elements of civic education, transforming education into training and students into consumers. Neoliberalism, Globalization, and Human Capital Learning is an enormously important book that reveals in painstaking detail how neoliberal ideology destroys critical education. But it does much more. It also provides the insights and tools for educators to both overcome the market-based attack on critical education and address schooling as a democratic public sphere and the classroom as a laboratory for the nurturing of critical agency and social responsibility. This dynamic book should stir a public outcry among concerned citizens and educators through out the globe. Henry A.Giroux is the Global TV Network Chair at McMaster University and the author of the more recent America on the Edge and Beyond the Spectacle of Terrorism.