Pau Bori – författare

This book examines how neoliberalism finds expression in foreign language textbooks. Moving beyond the usual focus on English, Pau Bori explores the impact of neoliberal ideology on Catalan textbooks. By comparing Catalan textbooks to English textbooks, this book interrogates the similarities and differences between a minor and a global language in the age of neoliberalism. Drawing on insights from critical theory and critical pedagogy, this study provides a fresh perspective on foreign language textbooks and second language education more broadly. Language Textbooks in the Era of Neoliberalism paves the way for new critical perspectives in language education that will challenge the current hegemony of neoliberalism.

Informed by Marxist scholarship, this book aims to shed light on the complex relationship between capitalism, education, and digitalization.The book is structured in two parts, related dialectically. The first part traces the new global educational order from the 1980s to the current highly digitalized moment. The second part draws on interviews with teachers and activists in Catalonia about the current educational orthodoxy, revealing the effect of neoliberal policies within schools, and what alternatives are offered by teacher resistance movements. The book closes with a chapter on the interplay between artificial intelligence, capitalism, and education.A significant contribution to critical scholarship on neoliberalism and education, this book is essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students working in education policy, sociology of education, and discourse analysis.