The Margins of Neoliberal Reform: Envisioning Critical Race Praxis Along the Borders of K–12 Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium will trace and reimagine the racialized borders of neoliberal education as it unfolds in sites outside traditional mainstream K-12 spaces and identify modes of critical race praxis in what are considered to be peripheral locations. Each of the four papers included demarcates a critical yet under-examined site for analysis in charting the entanglement of racism and neoliberalism in education. In addition to mapping the racialized margins of K-12 education in a neoliberal context, the convergence of these works in alternative teacher education, charter schools and parent activism, culturally relevant teaching in alternative schools, and transformative postsecondary pedagogy allows for a critical centering of the borders of traditional sites and a holistic envisioning of critical race praxis in education.

Sub Unit

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

Chair

• Jennifer R. Nájera, University of California - Riverside

Papers

• The Margins of Neoliberal Reform: Envisioning Critical Race Praxis Along the Borders of K–12 Education - Steven Moreno-Terrill, University of California - Riverside

• Lessons Learned From Immigrant Latina Mothers on Parent Trigger in Compton, California - Lizette Lucha Arévalo, University of California - Riverside

• Preparing Teachers of Color in the Alternative Education System - Nallely Arteaga, University of California - Riverside

• Making Space for Transformative Teaching: An Analysis of Student-Centered and Critical Race Pedagogies in Higher Education - Franklin Christopher Perez, California State University - Fullerton

• Teach For America as Neoliberal Racism: A Critical Race Analysis of an Alternative Teacher Certification Program - Arturo Nevarez, University of California - Riverside