In October, Gary Anderson, professor emeritus at New York University, will be at UFMG as a guest of the FUNDEP/IEAT Chair Program. During the chair, Gary Anderson will deliver the Great Conference New Governance, New Public Management and the New Professional: Privatizing Subjectivies.

The activity will take place at the Neidson Rodrigues auditorium of the Faculty of Education at UFMG (FaE) on October 5, 2022, at 2 pm, together with the International Seminar on Public Policies for the Improvement of Education, organized by the Gestrado.

The conference will be held in English, with simultaneous translation, and a certificate of attendance will be issued to those who register through the Sistema Gestão de Eventos and confirm their presence on the day of the event.

According to Gary Anderson, several countries have increasingly experienced privatization of government, policymaking and the entire public sector. In Chile, only 35% of school-age children attend public schools. In Texas in the U.S., 62% of teachers are prepared by for-profit companies. In the U.S., the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), largest non-partisan organization of state legislators guided by the principles of limited government, free markets, and federalism, brings corporate leaders and state legislators together to write model laws that they pass through state legislatures.

“But privatizers also want to privatize our professional and personal subjectivities, changing the meaning of what it means to be a professional and a person”. – highlights Gary Anderson.

The conference will discuss how New Public Management, which is a management model that preaches the use of principles and practices adopted in the private sector in Public Administration, has reshaped professionals across the public sector. Gary Anderson intends to address that, rather than returning to some earlier conception of professionalism, the growing professional resistance to this model should be seen as an opportunity to create a generation of democratic and participatory public sector professionals.

About the guest

Gary L. Anderson is professor emeritus of Educational Policy and Administration in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University. A former high school teacher and administer, he has published on topics such as school reform, New Public Management, The new professional, and participatory action research His most recent books are, The politics of education policy in an era of inequality: Possibilities for democratic schooling with Sonia Horsford & Janelle Scott (2019, Routledge); The new democratic professional: Confronting Markets, Metrics, and Managerialism, with Michael Cohen (2018, Teachers College Press), Creating third spaces of learning for post-Capitalism: Lessons from educators and activists with Dipti Desai, Ana Inés Heras, & Carol Anne Spreen (in press, Routledge)