미국 신자유주의 교육사학자 다이안 래비치(Diane Ravitch)의 교육론 (Diane Ravitch and the Neoliberal Education in the United States)

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초록

This paper is an analysis on the work of Diane Ravitch, a renowned
rightist scholar in education in the United States. Ravitch, a historian of
education who served in the US Department of Education during the
Bush and Clinton government as assistant secretary, is one of the
leading figures in the literature of neoliberalism and neoconservatism in
education.
Little research is done on the academic work of Diane Ravitch
despite her influence in the neoliberal/neoconservative reform literature.
She has been an active writer and reformer rather than being
spotlighted as an object of academic scholarship. Since the evolution of
neoliberal education policy has marked decades of influence on
education across nations, it is my contention that Ravitch's work is
worth analyzing and discussing in depth.
This paper critically examines the educational positions of Ravitch by
analyzing the major arguments of her major work and discusses their
implications. I approach her ideas and arguments by following the
trajectories of her academic work, which is divided into three periods
for the purpose of the research. Her ideas have evolved and shifted in
the course of her career development, which is shown in the criticisms
of the radical revisionist historians, “anti-intellectual” tendencies of postwar reforms, and her search for new remedies such as arguing for
the “common culture(anti-multicultualism)” and establishing “content
standards” in education. Some of the basic themes that emerge in her
work are also discussed thematically, which include equal opportunity
and meritocracy, quality and equality, public education and privatization.
Diane Ravitch is a hard-line rightist scholar. While it is notable that
the basic rationale for her argument lies in the cause of equal
opportunity and enhancing public functions of education, her claims
remain “rhetorical” due to the conceptual limitations and contradictions
in the use of the terms.

영어초록

This paper is an analysis on the work of Diane Ravitch, a renowned
rightist scholar in education in the United States. Ravitch, a historian of
education who served in the US Department of Education during the
Bush and Clinton government as assistant secretary, is one of the
leading figures in the literature of neoliberalism and neoconservatism in
education.
Little research is done on the academic work of Diane Ravitch
despite her influence in the neoliberal/neoconservative reform literature.
She has been an active writer and reformer rather than being
spotlighted as an object of academic scholarship. Since the evolution of
neoliberal education policy has marked decades of influence on
education across nations, it is my contention that Ravitch's work is
worth analyzing and discussing in depth.
This paper critically examines the educational positions of Ravitch by
analyzing the major arguments of her major work and discusses their
implications. I approach her ideas and arguments by following the
trajectories of her academic work, which is divided into three periods
for the purpose of the research. Her ideas have evolved and shifted in
the course of her career development, which is shown in the criticisms
of the radical revisionist historians, “anti-intellectual” tendencies of postwar reforms, and her search for new remedies such as arguing for
the “common culture(anti-multicultualism)” and establishing “content
standards” in education. Some of the basic themes that emerge in her
work are also discussed thematically, which include equal opportunity
and meritocracy, quality and equality, public education and privatization.
Diane Ravitch is a hard-line rightist scholar. While it is notable that
the basic rationale for her argument lies in the cause of equal
opportunity and enhancing public functions of education, her claims
remain “rhetorical” due to the conceptual limitations and contradictions
in the use of the terms.

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