Wednesday, January 26th
"The Subject of Schooling in the Logic of Policy", Dr. Heather Jacklin, University of Capetown. Sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences Kentucky & South Africa Symposium. Discussants: Alan DeYoung (EPE) and Leon Sachs (French).
4-6pm, Faculty Lounge, Dickey Hall, College of Education
This talk examines shifts in how the ideal learning has been imagined as the subject of education policy. The basic conceptual point is that the logic of education (schooling) policy takes such an imagined learner as its reference point for generating school curriculum and organization. At moments of policy change, following broader social, economic, and political change, this imagining becomes more explicit in policy discourse. Particular discursive strategies are utilized to translate broader changes into education shifts and to legitimate these shifts publicly.
Monday, March 28th
"Accounting for excellence: Transforming universities into organizational actors" Dr. Francisco Ramirez
1:30 pm in the New Student Center Rm 211
Throughout the world universities are increasingly influenced by universalistic and progress oriented templates of excellence.This paper addresses the following questions: What are the core assumptions that motivate these templates? What are the primary illustrations of these templates? What are the main characteristics of these “winners”? And lastly, what are the benefits and costs of changing universities and their governance structures from historically grounded institutions to transnational organizations?
