POLITICAL ECONOMY AND EDUCATION

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2024 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify political and economic influences on education policy. Audience: Graduate 2. Compare and contrast various theories of political economy. Audience: Graduate 3. Understand education as a site of struggle among different groups and ideologies in society. Audience: Graduate 4. Examine theories and practices of neoliberalism and related concepts (e.g., late liberalism, racial capitalism). Audience: Graduate 5. Explore linkages among shifting political and economic trends and educational agendas Audience: Graduate 6. Determine how neoliberalism (and attendant theories) influence educational policies and practices, including through the interrelated processes of globalization, privatization, marketization, and corporatization. Audience: Graduate 7. Critically assess claims and arguments about what kind of educational reforms are needed and their potential implications Audience: Graduate 8. Describe intersectional (e.g., gendered, raced, classed) dimensions of labor, globalization, capital, and education Audience: Graduate 9. Critically reflect on assumptions about education and the possibilities of social and educational change Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify political and economic influences on education policy. Audience: Graduate 2. Compare and contrast various theories of political economy. Audience: Graduate 3. Understand education as a site of struggle among different groups and ideologies in society. Audience: Graduate 4. Examine theories and practices of neoliberalism and related concepts (e.g., late liberalism, racial capitalism). Audience: Graduate 5. Explore linkages among shifting political and economic trends and educational agendas Audience: Graduate 6. Determine how neoliberalism (and attendant theories) influence educational policies and practices, including through the interrelated processes of globalization, privatization, marketization, and corporatization. Audience: Graduate 7. Critically assess claims and arguments about what kind of educational reforms are needed and their potential implications Audience: Graduate 8. Describe intersectional (e.g., gendered, raced, classed) dimensions of labor, globalization, capital, and education Audience: Graduate 9. Critically reflect on assumptions about education and the possibilities of social and educational change Audience: Graduate