Department of Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education
Date of this Version
1-2021
Citation
Phillips, A. J., & Hamann, E. T. (2021). "The Lady from North Carolina": The Perils and Limitations of External Expertise. Anthropology & Education Quarterly. doi:10.1111/aeq.12367
Abstract
This paper examines a state department of education’s (SDE) decision to contract a consultant to “turnaround” schools, per a logic of outsourcing for external expertise. Our ethnographically informed case study explores whose knowledge had the most worth in diagnosing areas for improvement and identifies this case as part of a trend to rent competencies, under a neoliberal guise of efficiency, but at the expense of system capacity or learning.
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