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Political or APolitical? AP Economics teachers, neoliberalism, and the political classroom
(2018) Cheng, Min; Nadkarni, Maya; Smulyan, Lisa
In this qualitative study, I find that progressive public school teachers of AP Economics experience a multitude of institutional constraints that are direct descendants of the way that neoliberalism has mapped onto the teaching and structure of AP Economics. One particular constraint that I highlight is the internalization of the cultural narrative of the apolitical teacher. I examine, using semi-structured interviews, how these institutional and cultural constraints have manifested in the AP Economics classrooms of four mid-Atlantic public schools, and how the teachers leading those classrooms view their own agency to use their classrooms as sites for social change.