This book questions what ‘educating the whole child’ means in the context of our current neoliberal education system. In analysing the impact of how educati

This research is an investigation into how the essentially 'progressive' pedagogical construct of the whole child became a neoliberal policy subject. In short,

Neoliberalism, with its worldview of competition, choice and calculation, its economisation of everything, and its will to govern has ‘sunk its roots deep’

Chapter 14 Sure Start. Undermined by neoliberalism: Inequalities and the language of disadvantage

The ongoing neoliberalisation of education is complex, varied and relentless. It involves increasingly diverse material and structural changes to curriculum, pe