Education, Neoliberalism, and Democracy

Early work on education began with my research on Chinese immigration in Vancouver and struggles over what schools should do and be in the context of globalization and transnational migration. Those early studies led to broader comparative research on shifting philosophical approaches and neoliberal policy reforms in education in late twentieth century Western societies. Recent work with Chris Lizotte has focused on the impact of new stakeholders in education, particularly philanthropic foundations who seek to reform schools based on ideas and practices taken from the world of business. My book, Making Workers: Radical Geographies of Education, brings together this broad corpus of scholarship, linking education and society to the spatial transformations in work and subjectivity under the last four decades of neoliberalization.