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Gulson, Kalervo N.; Webb, P. Taylor – Educational Policy, 2016
In this article, we problematize the establishment of an Africentric Alternative School in Toronto, Canada. We argue that policy, and race and racializations cannot be understood outside of, or immune to, neoliberalism. We contend that policy is a form of racial biopolitics, and race is now produced through neoliberal markets, in conjunction with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nontraditional Education, Educational Policy, Afrocentrism
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Gulson, Kalervo N.; Webb, P. Taylor – Education Inquiry, 2013
In this paper we contend neo-liberal education policy which supports the creation of schooling choices in public education systems is reshaping, conflating and branding ethnicity. We make these points in reference to school choice in Toronto, Canada, and the establishment of an Africentric ethno-centric school. We argue that one of the registers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Commercialization, Afrocentrism
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Webb, P. Taylor; Gulson, Kalervo N. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2015
This article discusses the idea of "difference" in relation to "schools of recognition." The analysis is based on a three-year study that mapped the development of the Africentric Alternative School in the Toronto District School Board. Within, we review the concept of difference and juxtapose it with Gilles Deleuze's concept…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Afrocentrism, African Culture, Nontraditional Education
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Gulson, Kalervo N.; Webb, P. Taylor – Journal of Education Policy, 2012
This paper draws on ideas of assemblage to examine the contingency and (in)coherence of education policy. The paper is a conceptual and thematic attempt to understand the policy terrain, broadly conceived, pertaining to opposition to the establishment of private Islamic schools in Australia and public Afrocentric schools in Canada. This opposition…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Afrocentrism, Foreign Countries, Educational Change