Mapping Corporate Education Reform in the Neoliberal State

Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies, Woodring College of Education, WCE Equity Committee, ESJ, CEED, WWU Diversity Fund, & the AS are delighted to collaboratively host Wayne Au from the University of Washington at two venues next Wednesday, February 28th.  Please pass on this email to friends and colleagues.  His presentation will address a topic close to all of us.

Wayne Au, Associate Professor in the School of Educational Studies at the University of Washington Bothell; an editor for Rethinking Schools.

 “Public education is currently seen as one of the last great “prizes” for proponents of neoliberalism as a large market for potential profit. In this talk Professor Wayne Au analyzes how the neoliberal restructuring of the state relative to public education has resulted in a shift from democratic government to an increase in non-democratic network governance by corporations, non-profit organizations, and philanthropies. Drawing from his upcoming co-edited collection, this talk offers a framing for the rise of neoliberal network governance in education and share different examples of social network analyses illustrating such governance in the U.S. Chile, and elsewhere”.