Who Owns Education? How the Dogma of the Market Shapes What We Teach and How We Learn
Facilitator(s): Tom Conry

Roundtable   +   Community Connections: community as resource   +   Everyone
One aspect of the remarkable domination of market ideology in American culture over the past decade has been a new, vehement insistence on the presence of visible commercial structures in the field of public education. Some of these are small and specific (soft drink contracts, ads on buses) and some are larger and more generalized (corporate-sponsored curricula, private fundraising campaigns for public schools, the rise of charter schools). This raises profound questions about who and what is at the center of teaching and learning. In this session we will explore the various manifestations of market dogma in schools, and examine what is gained and lost when the metaphor of the market becomes the organizing ingredient for education.
Date/Time: Friday, 8:00am - 9:00am   Room: CC 304   Session #234
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Participants indicating interest in attending this session are:
dindria barrowmcilvaigh m.s.
Damien BawnDanville Local School District
Linda CabralS. C. Red Elementary
Herb ChildressCenter for Teaching, Learning, & Writing
Kathleen CushmanWhat Kids Can Do/Next Generation Press
Thea DahlbergGreenbrook School
Jan FluterSmall Schools Coaches Collaborative
Judy HathawayMerlo Station High School
Jacklyn LongEastmont Junior High
Bob MontgomeryWestEd
Margo NannyBay Area Schoo Reform Collaborative
Amy SchuffSouthridge High School