The Neoliberal Discourse in Latin American Higher Education: A Call for National Development and Tighter Government Control

Autor/inn/en	Mendoza, Pilar; Dorner, Lisa
Titel	The Neoliberal Discourse in Latin American Higher Education: A Call for National Development and Tighter Government Control
Quelle	In: Education Policy Analysis Archives, 28 (2020) 176, (28 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Mendoza, Pilar) ORCID (Dorner, Lisa)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1068-2341
Schlagwörter	Discourse Analysis; Neoliberalism; Role of Education; Higher Education; Self Concept; Social Change; Social Structure; Access to Education; Disadvantaged; Educational Policy; Foreign Countries; Equal Education; Global Approach; Educational Quality; Government Role; Educational Administration; Mexico; Peru; Chile; Argentina + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Diskursanalyse; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Bildungsauftrag; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Selbstkonzept; Sozialer Wandel; Sozialstruktur; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Ausland; Globales Denken; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung; Mexiko; Argentinien
Abstract	Using critical discourse analysis (CDA), we explored how educational leaders and policymakers in Mexico, Peru, Chile, and Argentina address complex issues while responding to -- and in fact, developing -- broader understandings (discourses) on the role of higher education in Latin America. Fairclough's (1993) theory of discourse underscores that language is a social practice, socially and historically situated, and encompassing social identities, relations, and systems of knowledge and beliefs. Therefore, discourses, which are represented by all kinds of texts, exercise power because they can produce, reproduce, and transform social structures, including education policy. This study uncovers the nuances of the tensions that globalized discourses such as neoliberalism in particular face when met with national and local needs in Latin American higher education. These tensions need to be addressed in order to design policies that could effectively close the equity gap in the region amidst massification and the uncontrolled proliferation of private universities in many countries, offering access to underserved students to higher education but of questionable quality. This study suggests research like this is important in order to understand how discourses that are deemed global play out at national and local levels and possibly, to uncover alternatives to the status quo. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Colleges of Education at Arizona State University and the University of South Florida. c/o Editor, USF EDU162, 4202 East Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620-5650. Tel: 813-974-3400; Fax: 813-974-3826; Web site: http://epaa.asu.edu
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01