From the Classroom to the Picket Line
Education and the Crisis of Care
Friday, October 22, 2021 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM EDT
Zoom https://gmu.zoom.us/j/95441748844?pwd=cStUc1NFOFR2c1hpbG91OGtJaEp0Zz09
In 2018, a sequence of powerful strike actions and work stoppages by educators and school communities across the United States sent shock waves through the country’s public education system. They were responses to a constellation of struggles that have been gripping public education since the 1980s, including the increasing imposition of educational privatization and corporatization, the defunding of education, repressive standardization, high-stakes professional accountability regimes and, an intensifying ‘crisis of care’ (Fraser 2016; Fuller & Stevenson, 2019; Leachman, Masterson & Figuroa, 2017; Sahlberg, 2016). This presentation explores the work that schools and teachers do to respond to students’ needs within the context of longstanding racial and economic inequities and standards-based accountability. It highlights the ways that teachers have organized to demand a living wage and affordable health care for themselves and the provision of basic services for students, families and communities. Join us for a dialog and discussion about social reproduction, educational inequities, and methods of resistance in contemporary public education.
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