This book investigates neoliberalism in education and explains how it is a complex phenomenon which takes on local characteristics in diverse geopolitical, economic and cultural settings, while retaining a core commitment in all its manifestations to market fundamentalism.

John Gray, John P. O'Regan and Catherine Wallace are members of the UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics in the Department of Culture, Communication and Media at UCL Institute of Education, University College London. They have published widely in areas related to English language education, cultural studies and applied linguistics.

Introduction: Education and the discourse of global neoliberalism

John Gray, John P. O'Regan and Catherine Wallace

1. Mediatizing neoliberalism: the discursive construction of education's 'future'

Joseph Sung-Yul Park

2. Language, neoliberalism, and the commodification of pedagogy

Carlos Soto and Miguel Pérez-Milans

3. Neoliberal fetishism: the language learner as homo oeconomicus

William Simpson

4. Language skills as human capital? Challenging the neoliberal frame

Marnie Holborow

5. The bureaucratic distortion of academic work: a transdisciplinary analysis of the UK Research Excellence Framework in the age of neoliberalism

John P. O'Regan and John Gray

6. Being an English academic: a social domains account

Alison Sealey

7. 'Even the dead will not be safe': the long war over school English

John Hardcastle and John Yandell

8. Some thoughts on education and the discourse of global neoliberalism

David Block