Dumbing down education

1. William Robinson
Global Capitalism and the Restructuring of
Education: The Transnational Capitalist Class’
Quest to Suppress Critical Thinking.
Ricardo Zepeda

2. What does the system need?
Organic intellectuals, technocrats and administrators, army of laborers,
surplus labor
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3. Educational system
Elite centers for organic intellectuals, vocational and technocratic experts, basic literacy and arithmetic for surplus
labor

4. The report identified there is a direct transfer of
billions of dollars from the poorest half of humanity to
the richest 80 people on the planet.
“ William Robinson
”

5. Massacre of
liberation
activists in
the 60’s and
70’s
Takuma Hayashi​
President
Mirjam Nilsson​
Chief Executive Officer
Flora Berggren​
Chief Operations Officer
Rajesh Santoshi​
VP Marketing
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6. A Neo-liberal Counter Revolution
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Shed welfare
system
Privatize health,
water, education,
and energy
Integrate Third
World Elites
The Chicago Boys
Giving them a piece
of the pie
World currency and
finance
labor
Deregulation,
informalization,
deunionization,
increased
flexibilization
Free trade
agreements
More and more
precarious workers
everywhere
Increased
subordination
everywhere
Socialism for
the Rich
Savage capitalism
for the poor and
generous socialism
for the rich

7. Transnational
capitalist class
TC
C
Global rather than national accumulation
• Power has gravitated towards transnational
capitalists
• TCC have taken over state power
• TCC politicians have opened up their countries to
plunder
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8. Education
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For basic literacy and numeracy
• School to prison pipeline
• High stakes testing/rote learning
• Less emphasis on creative writing
For high tech
• Assure employment
• Utilitarian

9. Baron
An observer who came down from Mars might ask, “why does Latin
America need radical thought.” The answer: for a very simple reason;
because the situation in Latin America is radically unjust, so absolutely
unjust and so much more unjust with each passing year, that if we want to
make a contribution to the social life of our countries, to the well-being of
our peoples, we have no other alternative but to critically rethink our
society, to explore “other possible worlds” that allow us to move beyond
the crisis and to communicate with the mass of people who make history
in a plain, simple, and understandable language
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10. Questions
1. ¿En qué medida ha impactado el
neoliberalismo en su educación?
2.¿Cree usted que una visión
neoliberal de la vida ha
contribuido a evitar el desarrollo
de la educación del pensamiento
crítico por un enfoque tecnicista
de la educación?
2. ¿Qué cambios (si los hay) deben
hacerse para superar los
problemas globales actuales en las
IES?