Using Shakespeare's Plays to Explore Education Policy Today - 9781138903548

Taylor & Francis

Using Shakespeare's Plays to Explore Education Policy TodayNeoliberalism through the lens of Renaissance humanism\nAuthor(s): Sophie Ward\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138903548, 978-1138903548\nSynopsis\nShakespeare is revered as the greatest writer in the English language, yet education reform in the English-speaking world is informed primarily by the market order, rather than the kind of humanism we might associate with Shakespeare. By considering Shakespeares dramatisation of the principles that inform neoliberalism, this book makes an important contribution to the debate on the moral failure of the market mechanism in schools and higher education systems that have adopted neoliberal policy. \n\nThe utility of Shakespeares plays as a means to explore our present socio-economic system has long been acknowledged. As a Renaissance playwright located at the junction between feudalism and capitalism, Shakespear.