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Critical psychologists suggest that there is a crisis of selfhood in which people’s lives are organized around material consumption, radical individualism, and self-betterment at the expense of civic responsibility and the recognition of the social mediation of self (Cushman, 1990; Gergen, 2009; Martin, 2004; Martin & McLellan, 2013).
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Vassallo, S. (2014). The Entanglement of Thinking and Learning Skills in Neoliberal Discourse. In: Corcoran, T. (eds) Psychology in Education. Bold Visions in Educational Research. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-566-3_10
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