Ethnography of a Neoliberal School: Building Cultures of Success, 1st Edition

As a school ethnography, this book explores the controversial schooling practices and strategies embedded in charter school management organizations (CMOs), as well as how these practices influence teaching and learning, school leadership, teachers’ professional identities, and students’ understanding of success. By theorizing the common practices within the organization, Stahl connects current research in neoliberal governance, neoliberal structuring of educational policy, aspiration and social reproduction in schooling. Honing in on the discourse on education reform, Stahl demonstrates that a “unique blend” of neoliberalism and social justice values have permeated the CMO’s institutional culture, promoting the belief that adopting corporate practices will fix America’s schools and ensure equity of opportunity for all. The inclusion of institutional texts (emails, Blackberry messages, posters, and rubrics) balances the personal-subjective and inter-subjective to capture a blend of neoliberalism and social justice reframing.Ethnography of a Neoliberal School: Building Cultures of Success 1st Edition is written by Garth Stahl and published by Routledge. ISBNs for Ethnography of a Neoliberal School are 9781317205111, 1317205111 and the print ISBNs are 9781138672192, 113867219X. Additional ISBNs include 9780367878610, 9781315616490, 9781317205128, 9781317205104.