Ethnography of a Neoliberal School: Building Cultures of Success

Charter schools, as part of the education reform movement in the United States, represent a fascinating policy experiment. 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. Stahl draws our attention to the role and impact of different types of corporate logic and through an ethnographic approach, confront the messy actualities of the corporatization of public education in the US. The result is a fascinating and unsettling book which explores neoliberal investments, issues of social justice, and the active cultivation of neoliberal subjectivities.

This book will be of interest to scholars in:
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Charter Schools and Charter School Management Organization CMOs) School Ethnography / Institutional Ethnography / Institutional Texts Philanthropy and Urban Schooling 'No excuses' Schooling Neoliberal Educational Policy Enactment Corporatization of Schools Social Mobility in Education Neoliberal Subjectivities Urban education (access, equity, effectiveness)