Globalization, Privatization, Marginalization: Assessing Connections and Consequences in/Through Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium focuses on the ways that globalization, privatization, and marginalization are connected and advanced in/through education. This focus is necessary because forces of globalization and privatization function in a dialectic fashion with conditions of inequality and marginalization in which the latter conditions advance the rationales and the effects of the former. Previous scholarship has documented how marginalized urban settings within and beyond the United States are regularly the target for educational experimentation by (interconnected) local, national, and global policy actors who wish to influence policymaking and to support innovative approaches to solving the problems of education. This symposium makes a contribution by bringing studies into conversation that examine these phenomena at different levels and in disparate geographic contexts.

Sub Unit

• International Relations Committee

Chair

• D. Brent Edwards Jr., University of Hawaii - Manoa

Papers

• Charter School Saturation and Segregation in the United States - Frank M. Adamson, California State University, Sacramento; Meredith Galloway, California State University - Sacramento

• Speaking Cooperation, Acting Competition: Supply-Side Subsidies and Private Schools in Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Contexts - Mauro Moschetti, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Carolina Snaider, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Inequality, Poverty, and Invisible Discourses in Teach First New Zealand - Katherine Crawford-Garrett, University of New Mexico; Sam Oldham, University of Melbourne

• Between Privatization and Globalization: The Reform and Provision of Education in Honduras - D. Brent Edwards Jr., University of Hawaii - Manoa; Alejandro Caravaca, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Mauro Moschetti, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Discussant

• Alexander Means, University of Hawaii at Manoa