Kenneth J. Saltman
College of Education | Educational Policy Studies
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Kenneth J. Saltman
Kenneth J. Saltman is Professor of Educational Policy Studies. His work includes scholarship of neoliberal privatization in education and its manifestations in culture, politics, and subjectivity. Building on critical educational traditions and critical theory his work has analyzed the policies, politics, and practices of for profit educational corporations, new educational technologies, philanthropy, democracy promotion, innovative finance schemes, the militarization of schools, the politics of disaster, the body, and the intersections of policy and popular culture.
In recent years Saltman has focused on new digital forms of educational privatization and new forms of privatization that are accomplished under the rubric of impact investing, innovative finance, and philanthropy. His recent publications include The Swindle of Innovative Education Finance (Minnesota 2018), Scripted Bodies: Corporate Power, Smart Technologies and the Undoing of Public Education (Routledge 2016), The Wiley Handbook of Global Educational Reform (2019), and The Politics of Education, 2nd Edition (Routledge 2019).
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Kenneth J. Saltman
He is a fellow of the National Educational Policy Center and a Fulbright Chair in Globalization and Culture.
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The Alienation of Fact: Digital Educational Privatization, AI, and the False Promise of Bodies and Numbers
MIT Press
An investigation of the role of educational privatization and technology in the crises of truth and agency.