Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies

Publication Date

1-2025

Keywords

Queer theory, education policy, accountability, reproductive futurity, K-20, neoliberalism

Abstract

Like the depiction of plagues in apocalyptic science fiction, neoliberalism continues to infect education at all levels. This infection causes educators to care not for the children, but to embrace the figure of the Child. Reproductive futurism, in the imagined redemptive figure of the Child has been regulating the structure of education not for children, but for the exclusionary and decontextualized Child. This takes the shape of draconian accountability measures present in recent educational policies that do not have the best interests of children in mind, but rather the perceived redemption of society and culture, taking agency away from all within the field of education, to give it to educational policymakers.

Funding Source

This article was published Open Access thanks to a transformative agreement between Milner Library and Taylor & Francis.

Comments

First published in Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies:

https://doi.org/10.1080/10714413.2025.2450579

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

DOI

10.1080/10714413.2025.2450579

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