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Concerns arise that these neoliberal reforms depend on information and communications technologies (ICT) under the banner of educational technologies, or edtech. 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There is concern among some scholars that such neoliberal reforms rely heavily on information and communications technologies for their propagation and maintenance under the guise of educational technologies, or edtech. The purpose of this literature review is to examine educational research on the role that information and communications technologies have played in the neoliberalization of education across the globe. In particular, I describe how researchers have made the concept of neoliberalism intelligible by deploying it as a phenomenon for inquiry in relation to educational technologies. I argue that future inquiry must substantiate the broad claims about the effects of neoliberalized educational technologies by engaging more directly with those most affected:  \nteachers and students.  \nKeywords: neoliberalism, educational technology, technology, P-12 education  \n1 Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Bradley Robinson, College of Education, University of Georgia, Athens, [GA 30602. E-mail: brad.robinson@uga.edu](GA 30602. E-mail: brad.robinson@uga.edu)  \nPOLICIES AND PEOPLE  \nAccountability regimes, value-added measures, school choice, vouchers—it is difficult to ignore the evidence of market-based rationalities in global discourses around education. Scholars have argued that the appearance of such rationalities within education policy, curricula, and assessment underscores the expansion of neoliberal ideologies and discourses across almost all spheres of life, including the family (e.g., Shannon, 2016), religion (e.g., Atia, 2012), and leisure (e.g., Rose & Spencer, 2016) . Harvey (2005) observed that this expansion has been fuelled, in part, by the ability of information and communications technologies (ICT) to “accumulate, store, transfer, analyse, and use massive databases to guide decisions in the global marketplace”(p. 3), adding that such capacities form a primary mechanism by which neoliberal forces “bring all human action into the domain of the market”(p. 3), including education. The broad purpose of this literature review is to analyze research focused on the role that ICT has played—and continues to play—in the neoliberalization of preschool through secondary (P-12) education. In particular, I examine how education researchers operationalize the concept of neoliberalism when they situate it in various relations (e.g., economic) to the proliferation of educational technologies (ed-tech) .  \nNeoliberalism  \nGiven its susceptibility to terminological slippage, it is important to ground one’s use of the term neoliberal(ism), particularly when evaluating how others have deployed the term. As Ganti (2014) suggested,“because neoliberal is primarily a label of critique, using it too broadly can foreclose certain avenues of inquiry and analysis, leading to an absence of contingency in our representations of social, political, and economic life”(p. 99) . In other words, when the concept of neoliberalism drifts into a state of free-floating","cbCaiiKQvX9jcwkE","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiiKQvX9jcwkE","pdf",326258,"English","# Abstract\n## Purpose and scope\n## Neoliberalism and definitional grounding\n## Analytical framework for neoliberalism\n## Neoliberalism as policy\n## Neoliberalism as ideology\n## Neoliberalism as governmentality","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of this literature review?\",\"answer\":\"To examine educational research on how information and communications technologies have contributed to the neoliberalization of education worldwide, especially across P-12 settings.\"},{\"question\":\"Which market-based education reforms are discussed as part of neoliberal influence?\",\"answer\":\"The review highlights standardized assessment regimes, charter schools, and voucher programs as common forms of market-based reform.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the review address concerns about educational technology (edtech)?\",\"answer\":\"It examines how researchers treat ICT and edtech as mechanisms through which neoliberal discourses are propagated and maintained, while noting concerns that broad claims need stronger substantiation.\"}]","Policies and People - A Review of Neoliberalism and Educational Technologies in P-12 Education Research | PDF",1792080075]