Pedagogy and Social Change
Ep 2: Neoliberalism, inequality and the future of education policy
di Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity (AFSEE)
In this episode we are joined by Dr Sonia Exley, an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Policy at LSE and an expert in education policy. Sonia discusses various concepts of education policy, including amongst others open policymaking, private tutoring and shadow education, neoliberal notions and the influence of the OECD, as well as epistemic injustice across policymaking spaces. She reflects on the role that universities can play to drive social change across the education policy landscape and on current priorities for education policy. Access Sonia’s research Article: Private tutoring and government policy: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02680939.2025.2474935 Article: Open policy making in the UK: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-social-policy/article/abs/open-policy-making-in-the-uk-to-whom-might-policy-formulation-be-opening-up/709FFC8AD0E0C7D0BDC2DE18097BACBC Article: Quantifying privatisation in education: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/14749041241312274 Connect with Sonia Academic profile: https://www.lse.ac.uk/people/sonia-exley
In this episode, we explore Global Citizenship Education (GCE) and the emerging concept of Safetyfication through the work of Marta Estellés. We discuss her influential research with Gustavo Fischman on GCE before examining how Safetyfication, a term Marta introduced to the international literature, is shaping contemporary educational narratives. Access Marta’s work Article: Estellés & Fischman on Global Citizenship Education (2021): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0022487120920254 Book: Safetyfication of Education (2025) — open access, download freely from the link: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/safetyfication-of-education-9781350533929/ Connect with Marta Academic Profile: https://profiles.waikato.ac.nz/marta.estelles LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marta-estellés-701475347 ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marta-Estelles