You Gotta Fight for Your Rights: Neoliberalism, Free Speech, and Academic Viewpoint Diversity

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Author(s): Sabrina Boyer (Guilford Technical Community College, USA)
Copyright: 2024
Pages: 21
Source title: PK-12 Professionals’ Narratives of Working as Advocates Impacting Today’s Schools
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Patrick S. De Walt (California State University, Fresno, USA)and Dara N. Nix-Stevenson (Sincecombahee Educational Consulting, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-9236-9.ch008

Keywords: Business Science Reference / Education / Educational Administration and Leadership / K-12 Education

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This chapter uses an example of a summer program for gifted students run by the Department of Public Instruction in NC called Governor's School to discuss the recent attacks on education through anti-gay laws, attacks on “wokeness” and “woke education,” as well as race and gender as concepts in curriculum and the classroom across the country. Using the author's personal experience as an instructor at the NC Governor's School, the author addresses the attacks on education through a neoliberalist lens, invoking theorist Michel Foucault, surveillance, transparency, and power.

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