02252 a2200349 4500 1138775371 20250317100409.0 250312042014GB 12 eng 9781138775374 Taylor & Francis GBP 46.99 BB 01 eng JNAM thema JNF thema JNLC thema JNC thema JNAM bic JNF bic JNLC bic JNC bic EDU000000 bisac EDU040000 bisac EDU003000 bisac EDU046000 bisac 306.432 bisac Michalis Kontopodis Neoliberalism, Pedagogy and Human Development Exploring Time, Mediation and Collectivity in Contemporary Schools 1 Oxford Routledge 20140327 152 p In most Western developed countries, adult life is increasingly organized on the basis of short-term work contracts and reduced social security funds. In this context it seems that producing efficient job-seekers and employees becomes the main aim of educational programs for the next generation. Through case studies of young people from urban and countryside marginalized populations in Germany, USA and Brazil, this book investigates emerging educational practices and takes a critical stance towards what can be seen as neoliberal educational politics. It investigates how mediating devices such as CVs, school reports, school files, photos and narratives shape the ways in which those marginalized students reflect about their past as well as imagine their future. By building on process philosophy and time theory, post-structuralism, as well as on Vygotsky's psychological theory, the analysis differentiates between two discrete modes of human development: development of concrete skills (potential development) and development of new societal relations (virtual development, which is at the same time individual and collective). The book outlines an innovative relational account of learning and human development which can prove of particular importance for the education of marginalized students in today's globalized world. 2076 2076