Division B Fireside Chat. Educational Apartheid: A Conversation About the Privatization of Public Schooling and Its Effects on Curricular and Pedagogical Practices

Session Type: Invited Session

Abstract

We are bearing witness to a crisis in public education. Many schools in large urban cities are being closed and privatized by the hundreds, due to educational ‘reform’ policies supported by neoliberal agendas on national and global platforms. Various globalization policies affect the ways in which education policies are constructed and employed at local and national levels. The globalized economy and neoliberal politics have made new demands on curriculum, teachers’ pedagogical practices, literacy programs, and rigorous thinking. What are the causes of these policies and how do they inform curricular practices within K-12 settings? How are neoliberal policies working to accept or reject particular kinds of local and global literacy initiatives? This chat will actively engage with these concerns.

Sub Unit

• Graduate Student Council

Cosponsors

• Division B - Curriculum Studies

• Graduate Student Council

Chairs

• Karla R Manning, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Kristen Duncan, University of Georgia - Athens

Participants

• Stephen J. Ball, Institute of Education - London

• Adrienne D. Dixson, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

• William H. Watkins, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Kristen L. Buras, Georgia State University