Anuac (Aug 2016)

Education and neoliberalism in Yucatan, Mexico

  • Gabriela Vargas-Cetina,
  • Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.7340/anuac2239-625X-2455
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1

Abstract

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Under neoliberalism, at least in Mexico, education has been recast as a service that is to be sold for money, and not as a right of all Mexicans. The economy itself is now seen as a services economy, where everything is expected to make money. Here we reflect on some of the implications of current education reforms on our work at the Autonomous University of Yucatan.