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Conservative Education Reloaded: Policy, Ideology and Impacts in England (2016)
Journal Article
Hill, D., Lewis, C., Maisuria, A., Yarker, P., & Hill, J. (2016). Conservative Education Reloaded: Policy, Ideology and Impacts in England. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 14(3), 1-42

This article, written in December 2016 following the election in May 2016 of a majority Conservative government, and the election to the leadership of the Labour Party of Jeremy Corbyn, a left-wing social democrat, ?Old Labour style socialist?, revis... Read More about Conservative Education Reloaded: Policy, Ideology and Impacts in England.

Class Struggle in Cultural Formation in Contemporary Times: A Focus on the Theoretical Importance of Antonio Gramsci and the Organic Intellectualism of Russell Brand (2016)
Journal Article
Maisuria, A. (2016). Class Struggle in Cultural Formation in Contemporary Times: A Focus on the Theoretical Importance of Antonio Gramsci and the Organic Intellectualism of Russell Brand. Knowledge Cultures, 4(6), 81--96

The importance of education for social transformation is not exclusively something that is done in schools and universities. Taking education in its broadest formulation ? something that happens all of the time, in this article I posit the argument t... Read More about Class Struggle in Cultural Formation in Contemporary Times: A Focus on the Theoretical Importance of Antonio Gramsci and the Organic Intellectualism of Russell Brand.

Testing times and the thirst for data: For what? (2016)
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Maisuria, A. (2016). Testing times and the thirst for data: For what?

The emphasis on tests has made teachers and pupils depressed, harm themselves, and even turn suicidal. High-stakes testing and an oppressive data-drive accountability system de-humanise what should be an experience of enrichment, creativity and fun.... Read More about Testing times and the thirst for data: For what?.

The (im)possibility of the intellectual worker inside the neoliberal university (2016)
Journal Article
Banfield, G., Raduntz, H., & Maisuria, A. (2016). The (im)possibility of the intellectual worker inside the neoliberal university. Educação & Formação, 1(3), 3-19. https://doi.org/10.25053/edufor.v1i3.1974

The provocation and point of this paper is that universities of the North during the era of neoliberalism of have been sucked of their human life-giving capacities. What remains are closed doors and bare walls. Lest we give the impression of a hopele... Read More about The (im)possibility of the intellectual worker inside the neoliberal university.