Resisting and disrupting neoliberal subjectivity in self-directed education: what can we learn from black homeschoolers

IF 1.7 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Renee Tougas
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Abstract

Purpose

From the in-group status as a former homeschool parent, the goal is to problematize the entanglement of neoliberalism within self-directed education (SDE) pedagogies. Further and importantly, this study aims to bring attention to and examine the neoliberal resistant practices found in Black homeschooling.

Design/methodology/approach

A narrative literature review, content analysis and autoethnographic reflection to critically examine the neoliberal subjectivity of SDE and identify neoliberal-resistant SDE practices of Black homeschooling families.

Findings

This paper identifies SDE’s vulnerability to neoliberal subjectivity despite the neoliberal oppositional ethos of many of its practices and its antiestablishment historical context and rhetoric. It analyzes conceptions of self, autonomy and freedom (the ideas that underwrite self-direction) that can inform a critical self-directed learning (SDL) approach. It explores contemporary Black homeschooling and SDE practices for evidence of these conceptions, arguing that this demographic, at the margin of the discursive homeschooling community, instantiates an authentic resistance and disruption to neoliberal subjectivity in SDE.

Originality/value

Very little research has been done on neoliberal subjectivity in the discursive SDE community. The vulnerability of SDE to neoliberalization is important to SDL homeschoolers, unschoolers and other SDE facilitators who want to practice alternative-to-mainstream values or social justice-oriented pedagogy. Without awareness of this vulnerability, neoliberal hegemony can be reproduced by SDE practices.

在自主教育中抵制和瓦解新自由主义主体性:我们能从黑人家庭教育者身上学到什么?
目的从作为前家庭教育家长的内群体身份出发,本研究旨在对新自由主义与自主教育(SDE)教学法之间的纠葛提出质疑。此外,重要的是,本研究旨在引起人们对黑人家庭教育中抵制新自由主义做法的关注,并对其进行研究。研究结果本文确定了特殊教育在新自由主义主体性面前的脆弱性,尽管其许多做法具有反对新自由主义的精神,并且具有反建制的历史背景和言论。它分析了自我、自主和自由的概念(支撑自我指导的理念),这些概念可以为批判性自主学习(SDL)方法提供参考。它探讨了当代黑人的家庭教育和 SDE 实践,以寻找这些概念的证据,并认为这一处于话语家庭教育社区边缘的人口群体在 SDE 中体现了对新自由主义主体性的真正抵制和破坏。SDE 易受新自由主义影响,这对 SDL 家庭教育者、非学校教育者和其他希望实践非主流价值观或社会正义导向教学法的 SDE 促进者来说非常重要。如果没有对这种脆弱性的认识,新自由主义霸权就会在 SDE 实践中再现。
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On the Horizon
On the Horizon EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-
CiteScore
4.50
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期刊介绍: On the Horizon provides an insight into how the changing face of technology is making it possible for educational institutions to form new relationships across geographic and cultural boundaries.
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