The Future of Work: Teach For All’s Global Vision for Education

• In Event: Reframing Global Education: Internationalization and Transnational Perspectives

Abstract

Teach For All (TFAll), operating in over 60 countries, shapes how global leaders and communities perceive educational issues (Rauschenberger, 2023). Despite its reach, limited research critically examines its influence (Straubhaar & Friedrich, 2015; Thomas et al., 2023). Using Critical and Multimodal Discourse Analysis (Fairclough, 1998; Jewitt, 2014), this study examines TFAll’s ideological influence and relationships through the Future of Work initiative. In this paper, I argue TFAll is part of a global power bloc manufacturing an education crisis to redefine education’s purpose. And its race-evasive language masks how the Future of Work operates as a racial project, assigning low-income students of color value through human capital.This research is timely due to TFAll’s ideological and discursive power as a worldmaking force.

Author

• Arianna Marie Rodriguez, University of California - Santa Cruz