From Education For All to Scholasticide: The Rise and Fall of the Global Liberal Education Order

Dr. Mario Novelli

159 Education Bldg - Wisconsin Idea Room
@ 9:30 am - 11:00 am

Join the Department of Education Policy Studies (EPS) for a special presentation by Dr. Mario Novelli, Professor in the Political Economy of Education at the University of Sussex. This talk will trace the rise and fall of the Post-Cold War Liberal Order and its relationship to education. Dr. Novelli will explore the downward spiral of post-Cold War US hegemony from its triumphalist and upbeat uni-polar incarnation in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, where talk of (educational) freedom, democracy and peace was upbeat and widespread to its current 2024 iteration, where democracy has decoupled from capitalism, authoritarianism is widespread, war is prevalent, capitalism is fragmenting, and neoliberalism is failing to deliver broad enough benefits – even in its own Western heartlands. Drawing on Gramsci’s (1971) insights, at an earlier time, that ‘the crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear’, Dr. Novelli will reflect, through a critical political economy of education approach, what this all means for education in the twilight of US-led empire.

This event is co-sponsored by: the Department of Anthropology, the Department of History, Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, IRIS NRC, the Department of Sociology, the Department of Geography, and LACIS.

The Department of Educational Policy Studies is delighted to host, "From Education For All to Scholasticide: The Rise and Fall of the Global Liberal Education Order," with Dr. Mario Novelli, Professor in the Political Economy of Education at the University of Sussex.