This article will require a lot of patience to read; though it is no doubt well-intentioned, it often appears to be deliberately obscure. The main point is to describe the replacement of neoliberalism in education with something called 'neuroliberalism'. It might be better (and this is my view) to think of 'neuro' here in the sense of 'neuroses' rather than 'neuroscience', though this article explains it as "a desire to not only govern behavioural externalities, but also internalities." The idea is that while previous educational policy was mostly about economic production, which would then be extracted by capitalists, the new policy is based on responding to (learned?) deficiencies in motivation, mindset and cognitive skills, again so that capital can extract value. In other words, "neuroliberalism replaces the literally mind-less pursuit of growth with a mind-full alternative." My view? Though I think it's reasonable to criticize a view of education that focuses only on employment and wealth generation, I think it's altogether unreasonable to say "concepts such as lifelong education, inflected by neuroliberalism, exist to create subjects whose function is 'enslavement' to these machines of capital investment." Image: Drigas, et al.
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