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Historical, Political and Social Background: ‘The Neoliberal Times’ and Education

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Breastfeeding Privatization in Public Education

Part of the book series: Critical Studies of Education ((CSOE,volume 17))

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The problem that this book deals with can be conceptualized into two general concepts. On the one hand, the macro issues of the global and national policies and politics of education and the resources allocated to educational needs to be understood. On the other hand, the role of the mother and the mothers’ unpaid labour needs to be situated in this complex and multidimensional arena to understand the power relations and the reproduction of the inequalities. For this purpose, neoliberalism and the ways in which it restructures the educational system will be explained briefly.

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Apak, M. (2022). Historical, Political and Social Background: ‘The Neoliberal Times’ and Education. In: Breastfeeding Privatization in Public Education. Critical Studies of Education, vol 17. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0260-4_2

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