(En)countering the pre-owned future of public education

• In Event: Roundtable Session (Tuesday VI)

Group Submission Type: Refereed Round-Table Session

Proposal

This panel examines how particular visions of the future are, and can be, mobilized to achieve policy aims. The participants are part of an international network that met in Canada in 2018 to consider “What might be public about public education in 2030?” The particular emphasis is the ways that the future is constructed within policy, and the implications for schools and systems in the globalized education landscape. A sub-text is exploring the ways that forming communities of inquiry that include researchers, practitioners and policymakers from across national contexts offers rich possibilities for research and policy development around complex problems.

Sub Unit

• SIG: Globalization and Education

Chair

• Sam Sellar, Manchester Metropolitan University

Individual Presentations

• Educational Reform: Conceptualizing the uses and abuses of the future - J-C Couture, J-C Couture Manchester Metropolitan University/University of Alberta

• Students Crossing the Impasse of an Enclosed Future - Penelope Jean Stiles, University of Alberta

• The imagined public of schooling - Greg Thompson, Queensland University of Technology; Kalervo Gulson, University of New South Wales; Bob Lingard, University of Queensland