"In this highly original book, Gulson and Webb make an informed and exciting contribution to post-structural approaches to policy analysis." Patrick Bailey, Senior Teaching Fellow, University College London

The empirical focus of this book is on the twenty year struggle by parents and members of the Black community in Toronto to introduce an Africentric Alternative School (AAS) with Black-focused curricula. It brings together a seemingly disparate series of events that emerged from equity and multicultural narratives about the establishment of the school – violence, anti-racism and race-based statistics, policy entrepreneurs, and the re-birth of alternative schools in Toronto - to illustrate how these events ostensibly functioned through neoliberal choice mechanisms and practices. Gulson and Webb show how school choice can represent and manifest the hopes and fears, contestations and settlements of contemporary racial biopolitics of education in multicultural cities.
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Gulson and Webb show how school choice can represent and manifest the hopes and fears, contestations and settlements of contemporary racial biopolitics and ethnic politics of education in multicultural cities.
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Introduction: education policy and multicultural cities; Policy events; Policy and biopolitics: the event of race-based statistics in Toronto; The (micro)politics of racial neoliberalism; 'Up in the northwest corner of the city': the city, race and locating the school; Difference and recognition; Policy events, race and the future of the city.
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• Presents original empirical research on the policy process leading to the establishment of Africentric Alternative Schools in Canada; • Focuses on how education policy is creating new forms of racialisations in urban settings underpinned by sociological theory; • Captures the micro and macro politics around schools choice, as experienced by the Black community in Toronto,
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781447320074
Publisert
2017-07-26
Utgiver
Vendor
Policy Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, G, 06, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Biographical note

Kalervo N. Gulson is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales. Relevant work has examined the connections between space and race when theorizing education policy change.

P. Taylor Webb is Associate Professor in the Department of Education, University of British Columbia. His work examines education policy in relation to ideas of neoliberalism, governmentality, and bio- and micro-politics.