Education and the Culture of Consumption

David Hartley considers an important question for education: does personalisation mark a new regulatory code for education, one which corresponds with both the new work-order of production and with the makeover-prone tendencies of consumers?

David Hartley is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Education, University of Oxford, UK.

1. Introduction 2. Modernity, Production and Education 3. Financial crisis 2008: surfacing contradictions 4. Markets, Bureaucracy and Education 5. Towards the Personalisation of Education 6. Consumption, Personalisation and Education Policy 7. Personalised Learning 8. The Paradox of Personalisation 9. Personalisation and the social order 10. Code Switch? Education and the personalised society