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Teacher-Educators as Intellectuals for Democracy or Neoliberalism
Encyclopedia of Teacher Education, pp.1896-1901
Springer Nature Singapore
27/08/2022
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Abstract
Teacher-educating and teaching are understood to be intellectual professions. According to the Trilateral Commission (Crozier et al. 1975, cited by Chomsky 2016), neoliberalism requires “technocratic and policy-oriented intellectuals,” while democracy requires “value-oriented intellectuals.” The neoliberal agenda pursued by corporations promote self-interested private gains rather than public goods and that “[t]eachers are a particularly good target, as part of the deliberate effort to destroy the public education system” especially by the type of intellectuals who embody neoliberalism (Chomsky 2016, pp. 53–54). Therefore, teacher-educators ought to give careful consideration to what type of intellectuals they become and what type they are educating their student-teachers to become if public education and indeed democracy are to survive and flourish in this neoliberal age.
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- Title
- Teacher-Educators as Intellectuals for Democracy or Neoliberalism
- Creators
- R. Scott WebsterDavid Zyngier
- Publication Details
- Encyclopedia of Teacher Education, pp.1896-1901
- Publisher
- Springer Nature Singapore; Singapore
- Identifiers
- 991013047413702368
- Copyright
- © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter