Searching for Superman: The Role of Language in the Corporate Education Reform Movement
Description
This thesis examines media rhetoric promoting neoliberal education reform, including the advancement of school-choice systems and movements towards privatization. Films like Waiting for Superman and Won't Back Down have ushered in new, markedly "progressive" narratives that show neoliberal reform as both a model for a consumer-led culture in education and as a path towards educational equity, a goal typically associated with public schools promoted as a public interest.
Date Created
The date the item was original created (prior to any relationship with the ASU Digital Repositories.)
2013-05
Agent
- Author (aut): Morrow, Victoria Rose
- Thesis director: Brass, Jory
- Committee member: Blasingame, James
- Committee member: Sandlin, Jennifer
- Contributor (ctb): Barrett, The Honors College
- Contributor (ctb): Division of Teacher Preparation