What is new in the new forms of exclusion in education? Neoliberalism, work and education

Abstract

I develop in this essay a critique of the neoliberal project in the educational field. With the purpose of caracterizing and identifying new (and also not so new) processes of exclusion present in the politics of education of the New Right, I describe, comparati vely, the diagnostics and the promises developed some decades ago by the theorists of the human capital as well the ones otlered by the advocates of the privatist perspective which informs the hegemonic neoliberal project.