The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies
ISSN 1740-2743
An e-journal published by The Institute for Education Policy Studies
The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies is published by IEPS, the Institute for Education Policy Studies, an independent Radical Left/ Socialist/ Marxist institute for developing analysis of education policy. It is at www.ieps.org.uk The Journal JCEPS seeks to develop Marxist analysis of policy, theory, ideology and policy development.
The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies seeks and publishes articles that critique global, national, neo-liberal, neo-conservative, New Labour, Third Way, and postmodernist analyses and policy, together with articles that attempt to report on, analyse and develop socialist/Marxist transformative policy for schooling and education from a number of Radical Left perspectives, including Freirean perspectives. JCEPS also addresses issues of Social Class, ‘Race’, Gender and Capital/ism; Critical Pedagogy; New Public Managerialism and Academic / non-Academic labour, and Empowerment/ Disempowerment. The journal therefore welcomes articles from academics and activists throughout the globe. It is a refereed / peer juried international journal.
Volume 6, Number 1:
May 2008
Ravi Kumar(Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, India)Against Neoliberal Assault on Education in India: A Counternarrative of Resistance
Richard A. Brosio (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA) Marxist Thought: Still Primus Inter Pares for Understanding and Opposing the Capitalist System
Alex Means (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada) Neoliberalism and the Politics of Disposability: Education, Urbanization, and Displacement in the New Chicago
Adam Davidson-Harden (Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) Re-branding Neoliberalism and Systemic Dilemmas in Social Development: The Case of Education and School Fees in Latin American HIPCs
Philip Kovacs (University of Alabama in Huntsville, Alabama, USA) Neointellectuals: Willing Tools on a Veritable Crusade
Raquel Goulart Barreto (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)-CNPq, Brazil) Recontextualizing Information and Communication Technologies: The Discourse of Educational Policies in Brazil (1995-2007)
Isaac N. Obasi (University of Botswana, Gaborone) World University Rankings in a Market-driven Knowledge Society: Implications for African Universities
İlker C.Bıçakçı (Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey) The capitalistic function of education-directed social responsibility projects in Turkey within the context of relationships between the private sector and NGOs
Kariane Westrheim (University of Bergen, Norway) Prison as Site for Political Education: Educational experiences from prison narrated by members and sympathisers of the PKK
Sima Sadeghi (Medical Science University of Bandar Abass, Iran) Critical Pedagogy in an EFL Teaching context :An ignis fatuus or an Alternative Approach?
Martin Power (University of Limerick, Ireland) “Crossing the Sahara without water”: experiencing class inequality through the Back to Education Allowance Welfare to Education programme
Elaine Hampton (University of Texas at El Paso, USA) U.S. Economic Influences on Mexican Curriculum in Maquiladora Communities: Crossing the Colonization Line?
Richard D. Lakes (Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA) The Neoliberal Rhetoric of Workforce Readiness
Michael Corbett (Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada) The Edumometer: The commodification of learning from Galton to the PISA
Liz Jackson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA) Reconsidering Affirmative Action in Education as a Good for the Disadvantaged
Julia Hall (D’Youville College, Buffalo, New York, USA) Kelvin McQueen (University of New England, New South Wales, Australia)
Review Symposium: Mike Cole Marxism and Educational Theory: Origins and issues (2008, London: Routledge)
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