
The Privatization of Education
A Political Economy of Global Education Reform
Teachers' College Press
Published on 24. June 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-8077-5759-8 (ISBN)
Description
Education privatization is a global phenomenon that crystallizes in countries with very different cultural, political, and economic backgrounds. In this book, the authors examine how privatization policies are being adopted and why so many countries are engaging in this type of education reform. The authors explore the contexts, key personnel, and policy initiatives that explain the worldwide advance of the private sector in education, and identify six different paths toward education privatization- as a drastic state sector reform (e.g., Chile, the U.K.), as an incremental reform (e.g., the U.S.A.), in social-democratic welfare states, historical public-private partnerships (e.g., Netherlands, Spain), de facto privatization in low-income countries, and privatization via disaster.
Book Features:
The first comprehensive, in-depth investigation of the political economy of education privatization at a global scale.
An analysis of the different strategies, discourses, and agents that have contributed to advancing (and resisting) education privatization trends.
An examination of the role of private corporations, policy entrepreneurs, philanthropic organizations, think-tanks, and teacher unions.
Book Features:
The first comprehensive, in-depth investigation of the political economy of education privatization at a global scale.
An analysis of the different strategies, discourses, and agents that have contributed to advancing (and resisting) education privatization trends.
An examination of the role of private corporations, policy entrepreneurs, philanthropic organizations, think-tanks, and teacher unions.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
366 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8077-5759-8 (9780807757598)
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Persons
Antoni Verger is associate professor of education policy.
Clara Fontdevila is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology.
Adrian Zancajo is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology, all at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.
Clara Fontdevila is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology.
Adrian Zancajo is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology, all at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.