Creating Third Spaces Beyond State and Corporate Governance of Education: New Identities, Politics, and Practices for Post-Capitalism

• In Event: Beyond (Neo)Liberalism in Educational Policy and Practice: Creating New Democratic Possibilities

Abstract

Public schoolingis associated with tracking by class and race and the stigmatization on non-dominant groups. Yet attempts to address these issues through privatization, and markets has failed to increase achievement, introduced perverse incentives, profiteering, and a new paternalism toward the poor. This study analyzes education “third spaces” that are grounded in community activism and social movements and provide a rigorous and counter-hegemonic learning environment. Using a combination of World Café methodology, interviews and analysis of secondary and archival sources, we suggest a new approach to governance that is bottom-up, keeps the State at arm’s length, engages in horizontalism, and provides a third space for the negotiation of social relations that prefigures what a post-capitalist world might look like.

Authors

• Gary L. Anderson, New York University

• Dipti Desai

• Ana Inés Heras

• Carol Anne M Spreen, New York University

• Mickey Bronstein, New York University