@article{Tulloch, author = {Tulloch, Lynley}, title = {Is Emile in the Garden of Eden? Western ideologies of nature}, series = {Policy Futures in Education, Vol. 13 (No. 1, January 2015), pp. 20-41.}, journal = {Policy Futures in Education, Vol. 13 (No. 1, January 2015), pp. 20-41.}, abstract = {This paper will explore ideologies of nature including the 'Garden of Eden' and >wildernesses<. It locates these ideologies as morphing to accommodate the later trajectory of the Enlightenment Project and its endorsement of modern Western scientific and technological principles. Beginning with the premise that nature is unknowable, this paper offers a critique of dominant Western cultural ideologies that function to domesticate and order nature. This goes hand in hand with ideologies and practices of domination and control in the name of scientific, technological and capitalist neo-liberal economic >development<. The assumption that the boundary between nature and humans is crossable through scientific and technological knowledge is one that can be explored and challenged by examining how such knowledge is from the outset ideologically constructed. This paper will look at the concept of alienation from nature (as expressed by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in >Emile< and Karl Marx) to explore how modern schooling and the capitalist economy shape human-nature relations.}, language = {en} } @article{Tulloch, author = {Tulloch, Lynley}, title = {Fromm's Humanism and Child Poverty: Neoliberal construction of the >have-not<}, series = {Open Review of Educational Research, Vol. 2 ( No. 1, 2015), pp. 94-104.}, journal = {Open Review of Educational Research, Vol. 2 ( No. 1, 2015), pp. 94-104.}, abstract = {Children are particularly vulnerable to structured inequalities in society. Building on the work of Erich Fromm (1900-1980), this article contends that modern (post)industrial capitalism corrupts the human capacity to operate in the 'being mode'—that is, in altruistic and compassionate ways. Rather, within the individualistic logic of the 'having' mode of existence there are morally empty spaces where children become objectified, separated from caring communities, dominated and measured. The second part of this article will discuss these insights in relation to the significant impact of neoliberal regimes on children's social and physical wellbeing. In particular, it is argued that from the mid-1980s in New Zealand, the restructuring of the welfare state in line with neoliberal ideology has increased the vulnerability of young children to poverty and related issues. The narrow conception of poverty that is integral to the 'having' mode of existence merely serves to justify the ruling ideological neoliberal consensus. It is argued that any genuine attempt at human progress and the elimination of poverty needs to operate outside of this logic.}, language = {en} }