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Title Mapping corporate education reform : power and policy networks in the neoliberal state / edited by Wayne Au and Joseph J. Ferrare
Published New York : Routledge, 2015

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Description xix, 212 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series Critical social thought
Contents 1. Introduction: Neoliberalism, Social Networks, and the New Governance of Education -- 2. mEducation as a Site of Network Governance -- 3. Network Restructuring of Global Edu-business: The Case of Pearson's Efficacy Framework -- 4. Mapping the Education Entrepreneurial Network: Teach For America, Charter School Reform, and Corporate Sponsorship -- 5. International Access Project: A Network Analysis of an Emerging International Curriculum Program in China -- 6. Mapping Neoliberal Reform in Chile: Following the Development and Legitimation of the Chilean System of School Quality Measurement (SIMCE) -- 7. Mapping the Discourse of Neoliberal Education Reform: Space, Power, and Access in Chicago's Renaissance 2010 Debate -- 8. Other People's Policy: Wealthy Elites and Charter School Reform in Washington State -- 9. Gangsta Raps, Power Gaps, and Network Maps: How the Charter School Market Came to New Orleans -- 10. Enterprise Education Policy and Embedded Layers of Corporate Influence
Summary Mapping Corporate Education Reform outlines and analyzes the complex relationships between policy actors that define education reform within the current, neoliberal context. Using social network analysis and powerful data visualization tools, the authors identify the problematic roots of these relationships and describe their effects both in the U.S. and abroad. Through a series of case studies, each chapter reveals how powerful actors, from billionaire philanthropists to multinational education corporations, leverage their resources to implement free market mechanisms within public education. By comprehensively connecting the dots of neoliberal education reforms, the authors reveal not only the details of the reforms themselves, but the relationships that enable actors to amass troubling degrees of political power through network governance. A critical analysis of the actors and interests behind education policies, Mapping Corporate Education Reform uncovers the frequently obscured operations of educational governance and offers key insights into education reform at the present moment
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Education and state
Policy networks
Neoliberalism
Education and state.
Neoliberalism.
Policy networks.
Education and state.
Policy networks.
Neoliberalism.
Utbildningspolitik.
Nyliberalism.
Author Au, Wayne, 1972- editor
Ferrare, Joseph J., editor
LC no. 2014040610
ISBN 9781138791985
1138791989
9781138792005
1138792004