"All You Need Is a Credit Card": Global Commodification of Teacher Education

• In Event: 68.060 - Roundtable Session 29
  In Roundtable Session: 68.060-13 - Disrupting Commodification and Privatization: Critical Examinations of Policies That Reify Education Inequities

Abstract

Scholarship on transformations in university-based teacher education has rarely attended to the interplay between deprofessionalization of teacher education and educational privatization from the global perspective. Drawing on the methodology of network ethnography (Ball, 2012, 2016) and critical policy analysis, this paper addresses this gap by examining how global edupreneurs and edubusinesses commodify teacher education. The paper shows how these actors accomplish teacher education commodification by using global policy networks to circulate discursive constructions of teaching and teacher education as scriptable and modular processes. The significance of this study lies in revealing how commodification and deprofessionalization of teacher education serve the interests of the private sector on the global scale at the expense of underserved communities.

Author

• Elena Aydarova, Arizona State University