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The Case of Capital and School Choice (Ep54)
Empowerment Starts Here with Professor Julian Vasquez Heilig (click here to listen).
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In this episode, the informant talks about the capital required for parents to enroll their children in charter public schools and the ways in which this requirement violates the tenets of free education. In the close out, the host adds to the conversation by talking about democratic education from the angle of property, privilege and power.
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Additional Points Discussed:
- The mobilization of knowledge and the policies of knowing when traditional power holders are gatekeepers to knowledge;
- Bias in the system of education and its movement from being explicit to implicit to back to being explicit again; and
- The conflation of school policies and bigotry.
Resources and Links Mentioned in this Episode:
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Other ESHpodcast Episodes Mentioned
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Terms and Concepts Mentioned
power, privilege, teachers, students, race, students of color; charter schools; school choice; traditional public schools; Christopher Stewart; Julian Vasquez; knowledge mobilization; higher education; the academy
Mistakes/Corrections
In the introduction, I referenced the informant from last week’s episode (The Case of EduColor) as Jose Vasquez. His name is Jose Vilson and I apologize for the mistake!
Please feel free to let me know if you catch any additional mistakes. Thanks!!
The Full Link for the Episode…
http://eshpodcast.libsyn.com/the-case-of-capital-and-school-choice
