Neoliberalism and education: A reformational-pedagogical perspective (part 1)

• Main Author: Johannes Lodewicus Van der Walt
• Format: Article
• Language: Afrikaans
• Published: Scriber Editorial Systems 2017-04-01
• Series: Koers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship
• Subjects: liberalism; neoliberalism; education; Christian education; teaching and learning; philosophical preconditions
• Online Access: https://www.koersjournal.org.za/index.php/koers/article/view/2275

This article forms yet another link in a series of studies and publications from the pens (computers) of South African reformational educationists regarding the so-called –isms deemed to be threats to the Christian (Biblical) orientation to education (including teaching and learning). In this, the first part of the article, a brief overview is given of how these reformational educationists have so far attended to the various “-isms” that they perceived to be threats or challenges to Christian education. This is followed by an attempt to define the concept “neoliberalism” and to indicate what it means in general, and in particular, in educational context. This part of the article paves the way for a critical analysis of neoliberalism as a “philosophy of education” and of its transcendental preconditions in the second part. https://doi.org/10.19108/KOERS.82.1.2275