期刊名称：Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies
印刷版ISSN：1740-2743
电子版ISSN：1740-2743
出版年度：2017
卷号：15
期号：3
页码：1-28
出版社：Institute for Education Policy Studies
摘要：To date research and scholarship on privatisation in education lacks
critical depth and intensity. Many accounts have been largely descriptive,
focusing on how privatisation takes places, or on the threat of
privatisation, or its insertion within education systems. Furthermore,
work on educational commodification has been substantially dissociated
from studies on privatisation in education. This paper builds on this last
point. Writing and research on privatisation in education has largely
avoided what it represents and calls forth: the development of capital, the
deeper capitalisation of education. Furthermore, discussion on
educational privatisation typically ignores its implication in the social
production of labour-power. Therefore, with reference to Karl Marx, this
contribution drives the critique of privatisation in education forward by
focusing on commodity form(s) in education and their relations to the
capitalisation of educational services and labour-power. Consequently,
the points of resistance to privatisation in education are sharpened as
anti-capitalist weapons. These points of resistance are derived from
aspects of the capitalisation of education: marketisation, privatisation
and other related aspects. On the basis of the analysis in the paper, anticapitalist
education is only a first step, it is argued; anti-capitalism in
education based on an anti-affirmationist outlook flowing from negativity
toward the capitalisation of education, is also required.
