Confronting educational policy in neoliberal times : international perspectives / edited by Stephanie Chitpin and John P. Portelli.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A brief critical history of neoliberalism in education / John Baldacchino -- Re-visiting critical reflective practice in neoliberal times / John Smyth -- Neoliberalism as a new form of colonialism in education / George S. F. Dei -- Educational reform and exclusion in the age of neoliberalism / Antonia Darder -- Unpacking class and language disparities in neoliberal, colonized lands : linguoelitism and its effects on disfranchised Haitians / Pierre W. Orelus -- The impact of neoliberal assessment practices in Canada / Eric Dionne and Peter Milley -- Teacher professionalism in England : teacher's work at the sharp end of neoliberal reform / Alison Milner and Howard Stevenson -- Neoliberal education policy on racial and linguistic difference in Ontario / Jeff Bale -- The futility of market-based reform in education : the case of Iraqi Kurdistan / Abdurrahman Wahab -- Alternative messages of hope : pedagogies, consensus and a fairer go / Wayne Sawyer and Geoff Munns.