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Neoliberalising education: new geographies of private tuition, class privilege and minority ethnic advancement

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posted on 2019-10-11, 09:07 authored by Sarah HollowaySarah Holloway, Philip Kirby
Geographic research on neoliberalism has explored the restructuring of educational landscapes wrought through marketisation of preschool, school and higher-education provision and considered the responsibilisation of parents and children for educational outcomes. This study develops understanding of the contingent emergence of neoliberal educational reform, and its progressive and regressive impacts, through an examination of the burgeoning private tuition market in England and Wales. The paper outlines the contours of the previously hidden supplementary education industry, demonstrating that it reinforces regional and classed inequalities, while opening possibilities for ethnic minority advancement. Conceptually, the paper advances debate about socio-spatial specificity in neoliberal change, showing that the intersection of policy, free markets and consumer behaviour reshapes the educational landscape in ways that extend beyond state intention and control. Through these processes, contingent market forms are produced that offer social mobility for some, but ensure the social reproduction of enduring regimes of power.

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  • Geography and Environment

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Antipode: a radical journal of geography

Volume

52

Issue

1

Pages

164-184

Publisher

Wiley

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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© 2019 The Authors. Antipode © 2019 Antipode Foundation Ltd.

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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: HOLLOWAY, S. and KIRBY, P., (2019). Neoliberalising education: new geographies of private tuition, class privilege and minority ethnic advancement. Antipode: a radical journal of geography, I52(1), pp. 164-184, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12587. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.

Acceptance date

2019-10-10

Publication date

2019-11-12

ISSN

0066-4812

Language

  • en

Depositor

Prof Sarah Holloway

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