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35.082-11 - Austerity Education and the Pedagogies of Debt

Fri, April 17, 4:05 to 5:35pm, Hyatt, Floor: East Tower - Purple Level, Riverside West

Session Type: Roundtable Session

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This symposium presents a “programmatic coherence” (Mahmud, 2012) in the neoliberal socio-economic transition in the U.S. that can be seen, following Karl Polanyi, as historical alternation of stages of de-socialization, re-socialization and a new de-socialization. As David Harvey has suggested, neoliberalism has, since the economic crisis of the 1970’s, been used by the capitalist class to legitimize draconian policies that restore and consolidate class power by privatizing profit while socializing risk and eroding the power of workers and unions under the guise of fiscal discipline. Public education in the U.S. has been one of the caregiving institutions subject to fiscal starvation, privatization, and deregulation.

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