Neoliberal education and the neoliberal digital classroom

This article explores some aspects of the relation between neoliberalisation and the increasing use of digital technologies in school classrooms. It does this in relation to a specific case - a specific school, classroom and a fictionalised child - Sarah, who stands as a historical singularity and a...

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Published inJournal of educational media : the journal of the Educational Television Association Vol. 47; no. 2; pp. 288 - 302
Main Authors Ball, Stephen J., Grimaldi, Emiliano
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basingstoke Routledge 03.04.2022
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Administrator Role
archaeology
Blended Learning
Chains
Classrooms
digital gaze
digital learner
Digital technology
Education
Educational Change
Educational online platforms
Educational Policy
Educational Technology
Electronic Learning
Elementary School Students
Learning
Neoliberalism
Online Courses
Professional Development
Teacher Role
California (Los Angeles)
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Summary:This article explores some aspects of the relation between neoliberalisation and the increasing use of digital technologies in school classrooms. It does this in relation to a specific case - a specific school, classroom and a fictionalised child - Sarah, who stands as a historical singularity and an exemplary space of relations. Sarah's classroom and her learning experience are analysed as an example 'actually existing neoliberalism' through the exploration of some of the chains and relays that join up 'learning' in her classroom to strategies of education reform, to edu-business profitmaking and to private equity investing. Together these chains and relays constitute what we term as a neoliberal dispositif of learnification. The paper offers some starting points for the analysis of this dispositif.
ISSN:1743-9884
1743-9892
DOI:10.1080/17439884.2021.1963980