eprintid: 10089567 rev_number: 16 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/08/95/67 datestamp: 2020-01-27 13:03:22 lastmod: 2020-02-12 19:57:43 status_changed: 2020-01-27 13:03:22 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Sukarieh, M creators_name: Tannock, S title: Deschooling from above ispublished: inpress divisions: UCL divisions: A01 divisions: B16 divisions: B14 divisions: J80 keywords: Alternative credentials, anti-college movement, deschooling, education fix, Illich, school closure, school exclusion, work-based learning note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: The concept of deschooling has been making a comeback, after having been largely written off by the mainstream education research community in the 1980s and early 1990s. However, it is not just anti-capitalist radicals who are rediscovering the appeal of deschooling, but political and economic elites as well. This article traces some of the central claims and practices of this elite-led movement – that we call ‘deschooling from above’ – in current attacks on universal higher education, projects to deschool professional and technical training and an abandonment of past commitments to universal compulsory schooling. The authors argue that all of these trends need to be situated within the broader context of the unravelling of the education fix of the previous era of global (neoliberal) capitalist restructuring. date: 2020-01-10 publisher: SAGE Publications official_url: https://doi.org/10.1177/0306396819889294 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1741273 doi: 10.1177/0306396819889294 lyricists_name: Tannock, Stuart lyricists_id: STANN89 actors_name: Tannock, Stuart actors_id: STANN89 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Race & Class citation: Sukarieh, M; Tannock, S; (2020) Deschooling from above. Race & Class 10.1177/0306396819889294 <https://doi.org/10.1177/0306396819889294>. (In press). Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10089567/1/Deschooling%20from%20Above%20R%26C%20FINAL%20SS%202019.pdf