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Romanowski, Qatar University Tasneem Amatullah, Miami University  \nAbstract  \nQatar is in the midst of a systemic education reform, Education For a New Era, steered by RAND’s (a nonprofit research organization) analysis and report of Qatar’s Educational system. Driven by a neoliberal agenda, the reform includes international curricula, curriculum standards, teacher licensure, and professional standards for school leaders and teachers produced by international educational consulting firms. These organizations offer policies and practices often limited to an instrumental discourse where technical rules control knowledge with the purpose of controlling the environment. Furthermore, the assessments on reform are limited to post hoc explanations of failure and success centering on test scores and other accountability measures eluding some of the more critical questions and issues important for reformers to consider. In this discussion, we draw upon several concepts from critical pedagogy to raise questions regarding Qatar’s neoliberal educational reform and when appropriate, call upon our own experiences teaching and researching in Qatar. This dialogue is neither intended to provide solutions to problems of the Qatari Educational reform nor to point out successes or failures. Rather, it deliberately uses critical pedagogy concepts to raise questions that may have not been considered in order to provide reformers with insight and new knowledge that could prove useful for effective educational reform.  \nKeywords: Critical Pedagogy, Qatar, educational reform, neoliberalism  \nIntroduction  \nFor over three decades, education has been a target of neoliberal reform and countries worldwide have embraced neoliberalism (Zheng, 2010) . Often disguised as globalization,“neoliberalism is a complex of values, ideologies, and practices that affect the economic, political, and cultural aspects of society”(Ross & Gibson, 2006, p. 1) . In education, neoliberalism emerges as a market ideology where education is viewed as tradable products to be bought and sold in an effort to develop a knowledge economy (Devos, 2003) . Thus countries have opened their borders to large-scale transformations of public education creating lucrative businesses with the global education market now valued at $4.4 trillion (up from $2.5 trillion in 2005), with projections for rapid growth the next five years (Strauss, 2013) .  \nDriven by a neoliberal agenda, the State of Qatar has engaged in a systemic education reform, Education For a New Era (EFNE) . Qatar’s reform has provided prospects seized by numerous international educational consulting firms. Although knowledgeable about diverse educational theories and practices, consulting firms are limited because of their own context-specific epistemologies that are removed from local epistemologies and cultural sensitivities (Bloch, 2009) . A decade has past, millions of US dollars invested and EFNE has shaped and changed education in Qatar. However, the reform’s basic foundation and the majority of the modifications and revisions ofthe reform have centered on the structural or technical aspects of education and schooling eluding some of the more critical questions and issues. We argue the reason is the discourse guiding the reform has stark omissions of critical pedagogy and the questions asked by reformers are limited to the pragmatic aspects of teaching and learning. Denying reformers this source of knowledge is detrimental for effective educational reform because philosophies, theories and interests that underlie education are never addressed and these might prove useful in actually transforming education.  \nThus in this paper, we draw upon and inject critical pedagogy into the educational reform in Qatar. The purpose is to demonstrate the importance of considering critical pedagogy as an educational discourse and to rai","cbCaiss7tE8OopXs","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiss7tE8OopXs","pdf",724119,"English","# Introduction\n## Neoliberalism and Qatar’s Educational Reform\n### Discourse, voice, culture, pedagogy, and social transformation","[{\"question\":\"What does the paper argue about Qatar’s education reform framework?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that the reform is guided by a neoliberal agenda and a discourse that prioritizes technical rules and measurable aspects of schooling, leaving out deeper critical questions.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the paper critique evaluation and accountability in the reform?\",\"answer\":\"It notes that assessments focus on post hoc explanations of failure and success centered on test scores and accountability measures, which can omit more critical issues relevant to educational change.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the paper propose using critical pedagogy in the reform?\",\"answer\":\"It applies five selected critical pedagogy concepts—discourse, voice, culture, pedagogy, and social transformation—to raise new questions and challenge basic assumptions underlying the reform.\"}]","Applying Concepts of Critical Pedagogy to Qatar’s Educational Reform | PDF",1792089332,48]