16.029 - Policyscapes of Education Reform: Vertical Case Studies of Educational Policy Appropriation Across National Settings

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

International organizations expend significant resources on education initiatives (ie. human rights education, democratic citizenship education, progressive pedagogy) as a means of promoting justice in conflict and post-conflict settings. This panel considers the enactment of these globalized education reforms in four national settings, offering complex and nuanced analyses of the ways that these “policyscapes” (Carney, 2009) frame policy appropriation (Levinson, Sutton & Winstead, 2009) in schools and communities, and how local experiences and practices transform that enactment. These vertical case studies (Bartlett & Vavrus, 2014) of education reform offer an anthropological perspective on the uses and misuses of education reform as a means of pursuing justice in societies amid ongoing or in the aftermath of significant conflict.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 4: Social Context of Education Policy, Politics, and Praxis

Chair

• Beth C. Rubin, Rutgers University

Papers

• Historical Memory and European Citizenship Education in Poland - Hana Cervinkova, University of Lower Silesia

• Between Policy and Belonging: Constructing National Identity in Postconflict Guatemala - Beth C. Rubin, Rutgers University; Matilde Ivic de Monterrosa, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala; Miriam Ramirez Pinto de Galvez, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala

• Educating the Youngest Citizens Within Contexts of Continual Conflict: The View From Lebanese Classrooms - Garene Kaloustian, Lebanese American University; Thea R. Abuel-Haj, Rutgers University; Sally Wesley Bonet, Rutgers University

• Pakistan and Education Reform Policies: Intersections of Neoliberal and Global Forces - Cathryn S. Magno, Southern Connecticut State University; Jamie Lew, Rutgers University

Discussant

• Bradley A. Levinson, Indiana University