Supporting Grieving Students in the Aftermath of a School Crisis

Author(s):  
David J. Schonfeld ◽  
Thomas Demaria
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2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-101
Author(s):  
Malin Ideland ◽  
Anna Jobér ◽  
Thom Axelsson

This article explores how a growing apparatus of edupreneurial actors offers solutions for the current ‘school crisis’ and how these commercial actors become taken for granted in the public school system. The Swedish case is interesting, as it involves a once-strong welfare state that is now associated with both the neoliberal discourse of competition and the outsourcing of policy work. Two examples – research-based education and the digitalization of education – serve to illustrate how a crisis narrative is translated into edupreneurial business ideas and how companies become established in the edupreneurial market through ‘public/private statework’. Bacchi’s notion of problematization is used to analyse processes through which the crisis has become a hegemonic truth and thus an obvious object for (business) intervention. In addition, this study shows how the commodification of school limits what becomes the ‘research base’ for schooling. The results point to the importance of how the problem is constructed and what is represented (or not) in this problematization process, for example, how critical research is left out. Another important conclusion is that the crisis narrative and policy reforms nurture the existence of these private companies.


1956 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 342-344
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Author(s):  
Keigo Oshio ◽  
Yayoi Watanabe ◽  
Hisako Nishiyama ◽  
Tomoko Kobayashi ◽  
Yuki Kubota

Author(s):  
Amanda B. Nickerson ◽  
Benjamin S. Fernandez ◽  
Melinda Cruz ◽  
Samantha E. Stanford

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