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Kathryn Moeller puts forward an analytic framework for attending to the specific and multifaceted nature of corporate power within the political economy of education.
The framework is developed with the intention of furthering research on corporations in the field of education by creating different ways for researchers to examine corporate influence in education and the ways it operates through and exacerbates uneven power relations across race, gender, and class on multiple spatial scales.
How the field of education conceives of corporate actors and their related practices, processes, and power relations is analytically and empirically significant for ensuring equitable, transparent, and accountable educational systems. To illuminate the usefulness of this framework, the talk will include a discussion of the empirical case of Silicon Valley corporations and venture capitalists in education in the United States and globally.
About the speaker
Kathryn Moeller is Assistant Professor in Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and affiliate of the Gender & Women's Studies and Latin American, Caribbean & Iberian Studies. She is also editor of the journal Feminist Studies.
To be a part of this online event, please email Dr Maren Elfert to receive the link.