Neoliberalism, higher education and the knowledge economy: from the free market to knowledge capitalism

By Mark Olssen *, Michael A. Peters. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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Citations in the corpus

• When Physical Activity Participation Promotes Inactivity (2012, background): “As such, it is just one manifestation of neoliberalism that has become the “hegemonic discourse of western nation states” (Olssen & Peters, 2005, p. 314) and contains a range of neoliberal ideologies, including individualism, instrumental rationality, and universal notions of innate human…”
• Higher education: a public good or a commodity for trade? (2008, background): “Third, treating higher education as a marketable product may severely affect knowledge production and will lead to ‘‘knowledge capitalism’’ (see Olssen and Peters 2005 ).”
• Revealing the Hidden Curriculum in Higher Education (2018, positive): “1 3 systems for a fixed set of testable knowledge, performable skills and competences assessed through explicit learning objectives (Lundie 2016; Olssen and Peters, 2005).”
• Graduate attributes: implications for higher education practice and policy (2016, background): “…uK; cdepartment of Geography and international development, university of chester, chester, uK The higher education landscape is shifting under neoliberal forces that are increasingly aligning the goals of business, government and education (Giroux, 2010; Ingleby, 2015; Olssen & Peters, 2005).”
• Varieties of academic capitalism and entrepreneurial universities (2017, background): “…increasingly judged from the 1990s onwards in terms of its economic efficiency and contributions to national systems of innovation, the learning economy, the KBE and ‘enterprise culture’, economic competitiveness and growth at pertinent scales (Etzkowitz 1994; Godin 2006; Olssen and Peters 2005).”
• Lifelong learning and the knowledge economy: those that know and those that do not—the discourse of the European Union (2006, background): “Within the discourse of the knowledge economy, the higher education sector is central: a major employer within the knowledge-intensive industry (Peters, 2003), it is also the means by which the learner becomes high knowledge-skilled, graduate or postgraduate ( Olssen & Peters, 2005 ).”