Globalisms and Power examines the effects neoliberal globalization is having on Spanish and
Portuguese educational and curriculum policies and practices. The book dissects the nexus
between globalization (or globalisms) and power under a global policy momentum and analyzes
how neoliberal globalization strategies eagerly led by nongovernmental institutions determine
the educational agenda in each nation. Both Portugal and Spain were subjugated by military
dictatorships for more than four decades: their education systems were laced with an
authoritarian militaristic racist and xenophobic ideology. Both countries¿ secular
authoritarian and conservative religious traditions are now dangerously entangled with the
demands of neoliberal ideologies. Shedding light on how education and curriculum policies and
practices are determined and how they in turn determine the dynamics of ideological
production in society this book unmasks the massive artillery borrowed from the private sector
to fix public education and lays bare the fact that nothing is natural normal or inevitable
in this corporate global momentum.
