VIRTUAL EVENT: History, iconography and the visual cultural practices of postcolonial elite schools
This webinar addresses the matter of the management and conservation of histories (burnished ornamentalism) in globalising circumstances across three school sites in Barbados, India and Singapore.
VIRTUAL EVENT: History, iconography and the visual cultural practices of postcolonial elite schools
03 Mar 2021, 17:30 – 19:00
For more information and to register for the event, please contact Alison Brady.
These schools, which are the products of societies marked historically by colonial and imperial encounters, are now driven forward by new energies associated with marketisation, neoliberalism and globalisation.
Professor Cameron McCarthy (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) will offer three vignettes that illustrate the new circumstances for postcolonial elite schools as they respond to global forces.
He will discuss the changing context that heightens the importance of these schools’ investment in the burnishing of school image and iconography in their negotiation of new transnational educational market.
PESGB seminar series
The Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (PESGB) is a learned society that promotes the study, teaching and application of philosophy of education. Its London Branch hosts seminars every Wednesday in conjunction with Philosophy at the Institute of Education.
These seminars are led by national and international scholars in the field, covering a wide range of issues of educational and philosophical concern. All are welcome to attend.
Links
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- Philosophy at the Institute of Education
- Department of Education, Practice and Society
Image: Nikhita S via Unsplash
Cameron McCarthy
Communications Scholar and University Scholar
the Department of Educational Policy, Leadership and Organization (EPOL) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaig
Cameron teaches courses in globalisation studies in education, postcolonialism, mass communications theory and cultural studies in the Global Studies in Education Program in EPOL where he severed for many years as the director.
His latest books include the coauthored and award-winning 'Class Choreographies, Elite Schools and Globalization' (Palgrave, 2018) and 'Spaces of New Colonialism' (Peter Lang, 2020).
Further information
Ticketing
Pre-booking essential
Cost
Free
Open to
All
Availability
Yes