NEOLIBERALISM AND THE CHANGING NOTION OF INDIAN HIGHER EDUCATION

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  • Ranjan Kumar Sahoo Research Scholar (PhD), Department of Education (CIE), University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejes.v10i10.4986

Parole chiave:

neoliberalism, higher education, knowledge capitalism, privatization

Abstract

Neoliberalism is currently the most prevalent political philosophy across the world. It is a term used to describe the 20th-century resurgence of 19th-century ideas associated with free-market capitalism. The typical policies associated with neoliberalism include free trade, globalization, privatization, and changes in government spending to stimulate the private sector. This paper aims to better understand the reasons for this neoliberal turn in higher education and explore the visible and invisible ramifications of this paradigm shift in the policies for higher education in India. The paper focuses on the origins and meaning of neoliberalism, its application and practice in higher education, as well as the issues and critiques that have been raised in this context. The author offers both a critique of the neoliberal paradigm of marketized education and a challenge to academics to act as public intellectuals, both individually and with civil society organizations, to establish a counter-hegemonic discourse to neoliberalism for higher education. The paper concludes that neoliberal education reforms have made higher education much more diverse and have given rise to more learning opportunities; however, in India, which has enshrined systemic inequalities, neoliberalism has further reinforced existing inequalities, and public universities have lost their autonomy and led to knowledge capitalism.

 

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  • Ranjan Kumar Sahoo, Research Scholar (PhD), Department of Education (CIE), University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

    Ranjan Kumar Sahoo is presently working as an Assistant Professor at Anandapur Anchalik Training College (AATC), Fakirpur, Odisha, India. He is also a Ph.D. Scholar at Department of Education (CIE), University of Delhi. He is a Post Graduate Gold Medallist in Education from Ravenshaw University Cuttack. He also holds a Master of Political Science degree from the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). Sahoo has also worked as a Research Associate on a Major Research Project sponsored by Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) in the Department of Education (CIE), University of Delhi. His research straddles several areas including Higher Education, Economics of Education, Critical Theory in Education, ICT in Education, Policy Analysis in Education, Educational Psychology, Teacher Education, and Democratic and Citizenship Education. He has published a number of research papers in national and international journals of repute, most of which are indexed in Web of Science and UGC Care List. Sahoo also developed a number of course study materials for the School of Open Learning (SOL), University of Delhi. His most recent papers titled "Changing higher education scenario in India: Reflections on some emerging challenges and redressal" was published by the ICSSR in collaboration with Macmillan Education and “A study of the concept of ‘citizenship’ among the students and teachers of the state of Jammu & Kashmir” was published in Web of Science indexed journal the MIER Journal of Education Studies, Trends and Practices.

    ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1753-2364

    WoS ResearcherID: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/GWM-5487-2022

    Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jZsbPowAAAAJ&hl=en ResearchGate ID: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ranjan-Sahoo-5

    Academia ID: https://du-in.academia.edu/RanjanKumarSahoo

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2023-08-11

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V. 10 N. 10 (2023)

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