Commercialism in Education: Historical Perspectives, Global Dimensions and European Educational Research Fields of Interest | Zendy

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Commercialism in Education: Historical Perspectives, Global Dimensions and European Educational Research Fields of Interest

Author(s) -

Ingrid Lohmann

Publication year - 2002

Publication title -

european educational research journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.715

H-Index - 34

ISSN - 1474-9041

DOI - 10.2304/eerj.2002.1.3.10

Subject(s) - commercialism , ideology , free market , opposition (politics) , globe , sociology , higher education , postmodernism , neoliberalism (international relations) , public sphere , political science , public sector , political economy , public administration , public relations , social science , politics , law , epistemology , medicine , philosophy , ophthalmology

Around the globe, the systems of public education currently are being transformed into marketised institutions. Education is essential to the basic needs of every individual. But in a so-called ‘free-market’ economy, access to schools and universities is open only to those who can afford it. Jan Amos Comenius, Adam Smith, and Wilhelm von Humboldt, among others, laid the theoretical foundations of public education. Today, however, their ideas are being functionalised by corporate libertarians and ‘free-market’ ideologues. With the help of the WTO's General Agreement on Trade in Services they promote the abolishment of the public sector worldwide, including the EU. In opposition to this, the struggle for public education cannot be grounded on the demand for free und full access to (higher) education alone. It has to be conceptualised, in addition, within the horizon of a non-eurocentric, postmodern, global public sphere.

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