[Xmca-l] Re: Call for Manuscripts, Regeneración, Issue on the Neoliberal Privatization of Public Education

[mike cole]

How broad is your mandates, Miguel? Does it extend to after school? Seems
like it would help to know the kinds of efforts you consider exemplary
classics.

Does this topic fit in with sociocritical studies?
Mike

On Wednesday, December 10, 2014, Zavala, Miguel <
mizavala@exchange.fullerton.edu> wrote:

> XMCA List Family,
>
> I am relaying a call for manuscripts on a pressing issue impacting
> education everywhere. We conceptualized the idea of a grassroots journal in
> 2007 and it has grown, albeit slowly. Here's the latest call.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -------------------
>
> Regeneración, the Association of Raza Educators Journal
> Volume 6, Issue 1 (Spring 2015)
>
> CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
> Deadline: February 15, 2015
>
> The theme for our next issue:
> "Resisting The Neoliberal Privatization of Education: Reclaiming Teachers'
> Unions, Education, and Epistemologies"
>
> Undeniably, ever since the World Bank declared education a trade-able
> service--trumping the idea that education is a basic human right--education
> and teachers have been increasingly under attack by corporations, venture
> philanthropists, and a growing managerial middle class, who function within
> a neoliberal ideology that places insurmountable faith in markets and the
> expansion of capitalism globally into all facets of everyday life. We
> believe that the neoliberal project to de-fund and privatize public
> education interlocks with the idea of a racial-colonial State.  Thus, it is
> no coincidence that neoliberal experiments to privatize public education
> have materialized in large urban districts, such as Chicago, New York, Los
> Angeles, etc., where we find a significant number of Raza, Black, and other
> historically marginalized peoples.
>
> In this issue of Regeneración we seek both analysis and praxis, that is
> texts that help us understand more deeply how neoliberalism is manifest in
> particular geographic, social, and cultural spaces. As well, we are looking
> for texts that provide examples of resistance to the corporate takeover of
> public education. How are urban and other communities responding to the
> attacks on education and teachers? What grassroots and strategic spaces are
> created that provide alternatives to neoliberalism and capitalism?  How are
> teachers' unions being reinvented? What role does the fight for Ethnic
> Studies present as a counter to the neoliberal attack?
>
> FORMAT: Submissions may come from students, educators, parents, community
> organizers, or organizations; we also welcome scholarly submissions that
> are written for a general audience.  Formats may include testimonios,
> essays, poetry, art, personal narrative, as well as analytic and empirical
> studies.
>
> LENGTH: 700-3000 words
>
> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 15, 2015
> PUBLICATION DATE: April 15, 2015
>
> If you have any questions please contact: razaeducators@yahoo.com
> <javascript:;><mailto:razaeducators@yahoo.com <javascript:;>>
>
> To access past issues of Regeneración:
> http://www.razaeducators.org/archives_newsletter.html
>
> The Association of Raza Educators
> www.razaeducators.org<http://www.razaeducators.org>
>


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