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The Politics of Neoliberal Educational Policies: Conceptual and Empirical Examinations of Alternative Educational Visions

Sat, April 18, 4:05 to 5:35pm, Virtual Room

Session Type: Roundtable Session

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Educational practitioners, organizations, and advocates today are operating in a political context in many ways distinct from 50 years ago, largely due to the global and national trend in using market mechanisms like choice, privatization, competition, and high-stakes accountability tools to improve educational outcomes. In concert with the 2020 theme, this session makes visible various potential points for intervention, with the aim of providing evidence and analysis useful to actors resisting market-based regimes in education. Rather than a focus on individual achievement, the authors explore how neoliberal reforms reproduce inequity and explore the racialized consequences in relation to sociopolitical structures such as citizenship, segregation, governance, gender equity and immigration policy -- and point toward alternative educational visions rooted in justice.

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