70.050 - The Media and the Neoliberal Privatization of Education: Understanding, Critiquing, and Resisting Capital's Current Agenda for Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The presenters in this panel examine the relationship between media (broadly construed) and the current process of neoliberal privatization of education in the United States. Specifically, the panelists employ qualitative methods to understand several aspects of this complicated relationship. Through this endeavor, presenters ask how we can publicly read and critique media and deploy it in order to assert the right to public education and to continue to develop a genuinely democratic society. The relationship between education, the media, and democracy is a running theme throughout the presentations. Additionally, concepts and frameworks that have tended to be taken for granted in the literature (e.g., neoliberalism and the private), are problematized and explicitly formulated.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies

Chair

• Julia Hall, D'Youville College

Papers

• The Media and the Neoliberal Privatization of Education - Derek Ford; Bradley J. Porfilio, Seattle University

• Reprivatizing the Family: How "Opt-Out" and "Parental Involvement" Narratives Support School Privatization - Amy B. Shuffelton, Loyola University Chicago

• The Mass Media and Educational Reform: Simulations of Experience and Dialogue - Dave Wolken

• Teach For America: The Intersection of Social Media and Education Reform - T. Jameson Brewer, University of North Georgia; Matthew Wallis

Discussants

• Peter L. McLaren, Chapman University

• Rebecca A. Goldstein, Montclair State University