Information Package / Course Catalogue
Capitalism, Globalization and Education
Course Code: SOSY622
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: Third Cycle (Doctorate Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 5
Objectives of the Course

To put forward effects of global and neoliberal transformations on education. To analyse and discuss neoliberal politics that including privatization, flexibility and deregulation and deunionization processes and effects of them on education. To analyse the influences of transformations that mentioned above on educational labour process. To discuss the dimensions of marketization and commodification in education.

Course Content

Educational politics of welfare capitalism era before 1980’s. Human Capital paradigm and education. Privatization and marketization politics in education after 1980’s, the increase in private education institutions. Educational labour process in the face of neoliberal transformations, degradation and proletariatization of teacher’s labour. Flexibility of labour. The process of technologication of education and its critics.

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