TY - JOUR
T1 - Mother tongues
T2 - the Opt Out movement’s vocal response to patriarchal, neoliberal education reform
AU - Schroeder, Stephanie
AU - Currin, Elizabeth
AU - McCardle, Todd
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2018/11/17
Y1 - 2018/11/17
N2 - This article explores the widespread and growing public backlash against high-stakes standardised testing in the United States, following the parent-led Opt Out movement’s quest to dismantle neoliberal educational policy by coaching children to boycott standardised tests. We analyse how our participants, mothers and female teachers in Opt Out Florida, use Facebook group pages as on-going critical sites of consciousness development where connected learning, knowing, and action occur. We illustrate how our participants, perceiving their children’s teachers as muzzled by neoliberal, patriarchal education reform, banded together to collectively attack a corporatised and violent system of American public education. Our focus on the role of mothers, their defence of teachers, and their attack on patriarchal neoliberalism fits within the larger history of the feminisation of the teaching profession and reveals how mothers in the domestic sphere have organised to wrest teaching from neoliberal reformers.
AB - This article explores the widespread and growing public backlash against high-stakes standardised testing in the United States, following the parent-led Opt Out movement’s quest to dismantle neoliberal educational policy by coaching children to boycott standardised tests. We analyse how our participants, mothers and female teachers in Opt Out Florida, use Facebook group pages as on-going critical sites of consciousness development where connected learning, knowing, and action occur. We illustrate how our participants, perceiving their children’s teachers as muzzled by neoliberal, patriarchal education reform, banded together to collectively attack a corporatised and violent system of American public education. Our focus on the role of mothers, their defence of teachers, and their attack on patriarchal neoliberalism fits within the larger history of the feminisation of the teaching profession and reveals how mothers in the domestic sphere have organised to wrest teaching from neoliberal reformers.
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U2 - 10.1080/09540253.2016.1270422
DO - 10.1080/09540253.2016.1270422
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85006957190
SN - 0954-0253
VL - 30
SP - 1001
EP - 1018
JO - Gender and Education
JF - Gender and Education
IS - 8
ER -