35.038 - Critical Geographies of School Choice: Methodologies Toward a More Democratic Education Policy Making

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

By focusing on the challenges of spatial methodology in education policy research, this panel responds to this year’s conference call to consider how education research can move toward the inclusion of the spatially and educationally marginalized, dispossessed and excluded. The panel’s objectives are two-fold. First, we will consider how the growing presence of geo-spatial research to map the geographical patterns of school choice, using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), raises concerns about silencing the voices of the marginalized in education policy research. Second, we will discuss how critical geographic scholars in education have attempted to address these limitations in their research and have worked to create alternative ways of conducting more inclusive spatial research.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 4: Social Context of Education Policy, Politics, and Praxis

Chair

• Christopher M. Taylor, Cardiff University

Papers

• Mapping Injustice: A Practitioner's Perspective on the Use of a Geographic Information System in School Planning Decisions - Sarah Hainds, Chicago Teachers Union

• Geographic Information Systems as a Bridge, Not an Alternative - Jin Lee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Topologies of Policy Analysis: Studying the Space-Times of Data and Marketized Education - Kalervo N. Gulson, University of New South Wales; Sam Sellar, The University of Queensland

• Critical Geographic Information System: A New Spatial Approach to School Choice Policy Research - Ee-Seul Yoon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Christopher A. Lubienski, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Discussant

• Pauline Lipman, University of Illinois at Chicago