Neoliberal Ideology in a Private Sudbury School

Autor/in	Wilson, Marguerite Anne Fillion
Titel	Neoliberal Ideology in a Private Sudbury School
Quelle	In: Policy Futures in Education, 15 (2017) 2, S.170-184 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1478-2103
DOI	10.1177/1478210315610256
Schlagwörter	Neoliberalism; Ideology; Private Schools; Progressive Education; Nontraditional Education; Ethnography; Case Studies; Teaching Methods; School Choice; Personal Autonomy; Entrepreneurship; Privatization; Governance; Educational Policy; Educational Practices; Socialization; Educational Change; Participant Observation; Semi Structured Interviews; California + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Ideologie; Private school; Privatschule; Reformpädagogik; Progressive Erziehung; Non-traditional education; Alternative Erziehung; Ethnografie; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Individuelle Autonomie; Unternehmungsgeist; Privatisation; Privatisierung; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Politics of education; Bildungspraxis; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Bildungsreform; Teilnehmende Beobachtung; Kalifornien
Abstract	Educational researchers have called attention to how neoliberal ideology has profoundly and detrimentally influenced public education systems, but less attention has been paid to how neoliberalism influences "private" educational institutions. This article examines the influence of neoliberal ideology on education in the USA through an ethnographic case study of a private Sudbury school, Central Valley Sudbury School (CVSS), whose radical unschooling philosophy positions itself in an oppositional stance towards public schools, which it perceives to be hopelessly beyond repair. CVSS represents the permeation of neoliberal ideology in education through its very existence as a private school in the growing alternative education industry. While Sudbury practitioners positioned themselves in opposition to the neoliberal policies and practices of public schools, at the micro-level of routine interaction at CVSS, neoliberalism presented itself through discourses of meritocracy and choice, individual autonomy, entrepreneurship, and education as a private good. Such a contradiction reveals that there may be more congruence between radical unschooling philosophies and neoliberal rationality than would first appear. The article contributes additional understanding to how schools--both public and private--reproduce key ideologies of the society in which they are embedded. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01