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Publication details [#65196]

Holborow, Marnie. 2018. Language skills as human capital? Challenging the neoliberal frame. Language and Intercultural Communication 18 (5) : 520–532.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

economics | education | frame | job interview | linguistic competence

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

Using the Irish context as a model, and among decreasing public funding for education , this paper asserts that human capital theory acts ideologically as a removal strategy to move work result liability from the social to the individual.