Global New Public Management 2.0: How Neoliberal Reforms in Education Are Reshaping “the Public”

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

New Public Management (NPM), which gained influence globally in the 1990s, promoted the importation of business models into the public sector, a sector that was seen by some as overly bureaucratic and inefficient and insufficiently innovative and entrepreneurial. The studies in this session explore how NPM has evolved since the 1990s, and specifically its legacy in the educational policy and practice globally. The studies explore manifestations of NPM 2.0 such as the evolution of the British school inspection system, pay-for-performance schemes in Brazil, the conservative restoration policies in education that followed post-neoliberalism in Argentina, and how NPM has constructed new professional identities for researchers and new forms of resistance in the U.S. context.

Sub Unit

• International Relations Committee

Chair

• Gary L. Anderson, New York University

Papers

• Post-Panopticism, School Leaders, and Inspection in England - Steven John Courtney, University of Manchester

• New Public Management in Education in Argentina: Little "New" in "Right-Wing" Management in Public Administration - Monica E. Pini, Universidad Nacional de San Martin

• The New Professional in the Context of New Public Management in Brazil - Dalila Andrade Oliveira, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

• Subjectivity as a Site of Struggle Against New Public Management - Michael Ian Cohen, University of Northern Colorado; Kathryn G. Herr, Montclair State University

Discussant

• Gary L. Anderson, New York University