E-Learning for the Public Good? The Policy Trajectory of Online Education in Ontario, Canada

• Published in: Educational policy (Los Altos, Calif.) Vol. 38; no. 7; pp. 1676 - 1712
• Main Authors: Farhadi, Beyhan, Winton, Sue
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.11.2024; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: CAI; Commodification; Computer assisted instruction; Discourse analysis; Distance Education; Distance learning; Education history; Electronic Learning; Government spending; Historiography; Inequality; Interdependence; Internet; Learning; Marginality; Neoliberalism; News media; Online instruction; Poverty; Private schools; Privatization; Public schools; Social processes; Canada; Ontario Canada; policy historiography; educational policy; e-learning; education privatization; policy settlement

Our critical historiography of e-learning policy in Ontario, Canada, traces the policy’s trajectory through three settlements (2006-2022) and shows how successive governments have mobilized neoliberal discourses of personalization, access, and choice to justify new arrangements with private actors,...