Effects Of Neoliberalism Research Articles

Critical Reflection: A Response to Neoliberal Challenges to Field Education?

This paper explores the ways in which neoliberal thinking and practices have impacted upon Australian social work, with a particular emphasis on field education programmes. We outline a number of challenges that neoliberalism presents for maintaining quality field education programmes in social work and, within this context, explore the opportunities for social work educators to respond creatively by using practices informed by critical pedagogy and critical social work approaches. We do this by reporting preliminary findings from original research that examined the possibilities for critical pedagogy and critical reflection to deconstruct myths and counteract some of the consequences of neoliberalism. We position such critical practices as forms of resistance within critical social work programmes, to maintain and protect the integrity and quality of field education in contemporary social work programmes.

Globalization, Neoliberalism, and the State of Underdevelopment in the New Periphery

This study provides an analytical sketch of the context, culture, structures, processes, and consequences of neoliberalism. It examines the subject from two fundamental and complementary perspectives. The first involves an appraisal of the history and evolution of neoliberalism as a socio-political phenomenon from its origins to the present. The second perspective provides a systematic analysis of the theory and practice of neoliberalism, its circumstances and effects, with special reference to the issue of globalization and its impact upon the weaker sectors of society. The authors conclude that neoliberal globalization has contributed to the emergence of a new centre and periphery, no longer based on distinct geographical regions, but on different political and economic strata in both the North and South.

The Consequences of Neo-Liberalism on the Educational Prospects of Latin American Youth

The Consequences of Neo-Liberalism on the Educational Prospects of Latin American Youth