CHAPTER 19: Epistemology and Apostasy: The Role of Education in Times of Neoliberal Hegemony

This chapter investigates the historical forces that have given rise to the neoliberal worldview that currently dominates the political and economic agenda of the post-industrial West. The position is advanced herein that institutionalized education can operate outside of its historical function as a mechanism for the cross-generational reproduction of hegemonic sociocultural formulae through the provision of learning venues and experiences that serve to question and destabilize a priori assumptions upon which the marginalization of potentially useful cultural elements is based.