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ERIC Number: EJ1463494
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 25
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EISSN: EISSN-1920-4175
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Critical Geography and Teaching against Neoliberal Racial Capitalism in New York City Elementary Schools
Debbie Sonu; Karen Zaino; Robert J. Helfenbein
Critical Education, v16 n1 p80-103 2025
What might an anti-capitalist education look like? To address this question, we examine the curricular visions of 56 elementary school teachers in New York City, who were asked to design one lesson on the issue of social class and economic inequality. Grounded in neoliberal racial capitalism and critical geography, our analysis finds that teachers who emphasize specific places -- whether schools, city environments, the national context, or global landscapes -- are better able to orient their teaching toward explicitly critical and systemic analyses of economic inequality and its constitutive links to race, gender, and other socio-political hierarchies. Their lessons demonstrate how teaching can disrupt the neoliberal over-reliance on the individual consumer typically found in financial literacy schemes. A presentation of their lessons, seldom found in the existing literature, is followed by a discussion of what a multi-scalar approach to economic inequality can offer to the field of research, teacher education, and teaching.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: New York (New York)
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