(TRED) Conference; deadline 8/31/16
Friday, November 18th through Saturday, November 19th at the New
Bedford Whaling Museum
Public education is a human right needed for a healthy democracy as
well as social and cognitive justice. Around the world, public
education has the potential to be the largest and most brilliant
political device undertaken by government as a way to foster public
welfare. However, it has been assaulted from various sectors of
society unable to solve the major social ills that affect urban areas,
resulting in dropouts, school-to-prison pipeline, high levels of
poverty, and overt social inequalities, including racism, genderism,
and classism.
As a victim of disastrous set of social policies, public education
appears to be the only solid answer for millions of working poor and
economically disadvantaged, as a way to address the harsh cultural and
economic challenges. This isolates public education from symbiotic
and/or parasitic relationships that it has with other social issues
and policies. Through education reform policies, public education has
been married to economic policy as a mechanism to produce 21st century
workers for the global market. This market is framed by globalization
that comes with a host of social that have displaced and exploited
populations. The global consequences of these economic policies are
left unaddressed despite their local impact. Immigration is changing
the terrain of public education, especially in urban and rural areas,
immigration is political, social, economic, and cultural; therefore,
it too is prone to the neoliberal globalization attacks that impede
public democracy. Globalization exposes public education, teachers,
educators, and social activists to a new challenge, which is educating
people for a society that desperately needs to be reimagined so it may
work for social and cognitive justice within vibrant democracies.
It is these social questions and challenges that this year’s TRED
conference, “Rethinking Public Schools: Education, Immigration, and
Economic Development,” aims to address by providing a public space for
educational researchers and practitioners to engage in critical and
transformative dialogues to rethink the role of public education in
the light of immigration and economic development. What is the
ideological color of policies that have strengthened the nexus between
public education and economic development? How will such nexus be able
to break the community-school cycle of inequality and poverty? How can
civic and political participation address this wrangle? To what extent
can the rethinking of public education and its nexus with immigration
and economic development pave the way for an alternative political
economy of K-12 and higher education?
Submitting Proposals:
Questions may be emailed to: TREDconf@umassd.edu
All proposals must be received by 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, August 31, 2016.
More information here: https://surveys.umassd.edu/
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