Race, Place, and the Marketization of Education: Understanding How Spatial Imaginaries and Structures Shape Schooling

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This panel explores dominant and marginalized spatial imaginaries related to racially segregated school and housing markets and how these imaginaries affect educational policy. Current market norms posit that parents must make individual decisions about acquiring property and these decisions at least in-part reflect their preferences of neighborhood institutions like schools within socially and racially constructed spatial boundaries. In situations where parents do not have the means to choose property aligned with their school preferences, policymakers are increasingly relying on choice-based models of educational enrollment policy. This panel shares methodological and empirical presentations that interrogate conceptions of placemaking as they relate to market-based reform and neoliberalism. The collection shows alternative conceptions of space and place as they relate to these reforms.

Sub Unit

• Division L - Educational Policies and Politics / Division L - Section 4: School Choice and Other Market Reforms

Chairs

• Bryan Mann, University of Kansas

• Ee-Seul Yoon, University of Manitoba

Papers

• Research Tools to Analyze and Understand Spatial Imaginaries and Their Influence on Educational Policy - Bryan Mann, University of Kansas; Jaclyn Lauren Dudek, University of Kansas

• Racial Segregation, Spatial Imaginary, and School Choice - Ee-Seul Yoon, University of Manitoba

• : A Critical Race Spatial Analysis of Detroit Students' Suburban School Choice Patterns - Sarah Winchell Lenhoff, Wayne State University; Jeremy Lee Singer, Wayne State University

• Resisting Marketization and Losing a Sense of Place: Experiences of Latinx Adolescents With Gentrification and Displacement in Austin - Michael R. Scott, National Education Association

Discussant

• Jennifer Jellison Holme, The University of Texas at Austin