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Neoliberal Trends in Education
Neoliberal Trends in Education
Abstract Submissions Closed
Wednesday, 24 February 2021: 10:45-12:15
Location:
RC04 Sociology of Education (host committee)
Language: English and Spanish
Session Type: Oral
The structure and mode of operation of schools is regulated, to various degrees, by the nation-state, whose control is meant to ensure that they prepare the younger generation to become skillful workers and trustworthy citizens. But these roles of schooling are being challenged by global trends in education, such as neoliberalism. Moreover, socio-cultural 'local' contexts may temper global educational trends, facilitating, in turn, the inception of mingled (local and global) notions of justice in education.. With this in mind, this session aims at exploring how neoliberal trends in education may affect market-based along neo-conservative notions of justice in education (e.g., in the forms of access to education, pedagogies, grades distribution and so on). To provide a holistic view of these educational issues, this session invites contributions that discuss content and methodological controversies within education that concern educational justice in the global era. Authors are encouraged to submit papers that focus on how education justice is perceived, experienced and practiced by both educational agents (e.g., teachers, principals, policy makers and parents) and children and adolescents. But non-empirical papers are also welcomed! In sum, the session encourages new perspectives and empirical findings that stress the salience of neoliberal educational trends which affect every day educational practices in a neoliberal global world.
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