DISMANTLING THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION: SPEECHES AND NEOCONSERVATIVE STRATEGIES
Abstract
This article focuses on the dismantling of the right to education as a consequence of the neoconservatist policies. First, the origins of the right to education and its later configuration, in the 20th century, as a social right of the Welfare State are analyzed. The basic ideas of the neoliberalism and neoconservatism are then tackled. Immediately, the changes proposed or implemented by the neoconservatist policies are
studied in relation to: a) the structure of the educational systems; b) its privatization and commodification; c) the policies of decentralization and autonomy; d) those of standardization and evaluation; e) the curriculum and the processes of teaching and learning; and f) the mechanisms of self-accusation and subjectivation of the responsibility. Some general reflections on the strengths of the neoconservatism and the weakness of the movements resisting and criticizing it are finally introduced.
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