Contesting Governing Ideologies is the third volume in the Educational Philosophy and Theory: Editor's Choice series and represents a collection of texts that provide a cutting-edge analysis of the philosophy and theory of performances of neoliberal ideology in education.

Michael A. Peters is Professor of Education at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, and Emeritus Professor in Educational Policy, Organization, and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the executive editor of the journal Educational Philosophy and Theory.

Marek Tesar is a Senior Lecturer in Education at The University of Auckland, New Zealand, with a focus on philosophy of education and childhood studies. He is a member of the editorial board of Educational Philosophy and Theory.

Citation Information Introduction 1. NEW: Philosophy and Performance of Neoliberal Ideologies: History, Politics and Human Subjects 2. Neo-Liberal Education Policy and the Ideology of Choice 3. Varieties of Neo-liberalism: a Foucaultian Perspective 4. The Labouring Sleepwalker: Evocation and Expression as Modes of Qualitative Educational Research 5. The Learning Society the Unfinished Cosmopolitan and Governing Education Public Health and Crime Prevention at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century 6. What Were You Thinking? A Deleuzian/Guattarian Analysis of Communication in the Mathematics Classroom 7. (Re)Visioning the Centre: Education Reform and the 'Ideal' Citizen of the Future 8. Biopolitical Utopianism in Educational Theory 9. A Place Pedagogy for 'Global Contemporaneity' 10. Antonio Gramsci and Feminism: The Elusive Nature of Power 11. Foucault, Educational Research and the Issue of Autonomy