The Impact of Neoliberalism on Teacher Education in Canada.

This special issue is a collection of four conceptual papers and one empirical paper that explore ways that neoliberalism, both explicitly and subtlety, influences teacher education programs, in relation to content, marketing, and delivery. Four of the papers in this special issue were initially presented on a panel exploring the issues of neoliberalism as it impacts teacher education at the Canadian Society for the Study of Education annual conference in 2016. This special issue draws attention to the need for teacher educators across the country to be mindful of the influence of neoliberal ideology on teacher education; first, as an economic strategy/policy that shapes education--through funding, leadership, reward structures, and evaluation--and second, as it has the potential to reinforce inequities and reify power structures across class, race, and gender lines in our programs. The freedom that neoliberalism offers, which sounds so beguiling when expressed in general terms, can mean freedom for those who are already privileged and excludes those who have already been oppressed by societal and systematic inequities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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