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Séminaire : Capitalisme & Education
Date : 7 janvier 2026
Lieu : MMSH, Aix-en-Provence, France
Organisation : Esther Cyna, Marie Ménard, Nora Nafaa
Présentation de l'intervention
Le séminaire Capitalisme & Education reprend le 7 janvier 2026 avec une présentation de l’ouvrage de David I. Backer, As Public as possible, Radical Finance for America’s Public School, 2025, The New Press.
Résumé de l’ouvrage :
“A witty and provocative treatise on the financial policies we’ll need to make our public schools work for all children
From the anti-CRT panic to efforts to divert tax dollars to charter schools, the right-wing attack on education has cut deep. In response, millions of Americans have rallied to defend their cherished public schools. But this incisive book asks whether choosing between our embattled status quo and the stingy privatized vision of the right is the only path forward. In As Public as Possible, education expert David I. Backer argues for going on the offensive by radically expanding the very notion of the “public” in our public schools.
Helping us to imagine a more just and equitable future, As Public as Possible proposes a concrete set of financial policies aimed at providing a high-quality and truly public education for all Americans, regardless of wealth and race. With witty and provocative prose, Backer shows how we can decouple school funding from property tax revenue, evening out inequalities across districts by distributing resources according to need. He argues for direct federal grants instead of the predations of municipal debt markets. And he offers eye-opening examples spanning the past and present, from the former Yugoslavia to contemporary Philadelphia, which help us to imagine a radically different way of financing the education of all of our children.”
David I. Backer est philosophe et Associate Professor à Seton Hall University, au département d’Education Leadership Management & Policy. Page personnelle
La séance aura lieu en anglais de 10h30 à 12h30, en hybride :
En présentiel : Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’homme – 5 rue du château de l’Horloge, Aix-en-Provence, salle Duby.
En distanciel : Sur zoom, ID de réunion: 967 0909 1360 – Code secret: 516349.
Plus d'informations : https://edcapitalism.hypotheses.org/729