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Privatisation and Commercialisation in Public Education : How the Public Nature of Schooling Is Changing.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020Copyright date: ©2021Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (249 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781000202229
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 379.1
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Contributor Biographies -- Introduction: The 'Publicness' of Schooling -- Part I: Privatisation -- 1 What 'Good' is Schooling? The New Edu-Philanthropies and Education Reform -- 2 Charities and State Schooling Privatisations in Aotearoa New Zealand -- 3 Mobilising Neoliberal Discourse and Fostering New Subjectivities: The Eclectic Role of Philanthropy in Contemporary Global Education Governance -- 4 Interrogating the Private in Public School Outsourcing in Liberia -- 5 Hybrid Models of Delivery: State Mandated Public-Private Partnerships in India -- Part II: Commercialisation -- 6 Edu-Business in Finnish Schooling -- 7 High-Stakes Accountability and the Expansion of a School Improvement Industry in Chile: A Public-Private Sector Comparison -- 8 The Flow of Public Funding to Private Actors in Education: The Swedish Case -- 9 Teacher Concerns Regarding Commercialisation -- Part III: Publicness -- 10 Nationhood, Sex and the Family: Neoconservatism and the Moral Dilemmas of Privatisation in Schooling -- 11 Buying and Selling the Public School in the Market: The Politics of Space and Boundary Crossings for Urban School Choosers -- 12 Explaining Publicness: A Typology for Understanding the Provision of Schooling in Contemporary Times -- Conclusion: Beyond Publicness? Key Questions and Implications -- Index.
Summary: This book questions how the public nature of schooling is changing at the hands of privatised and commercialised policy reforms. It argues that public institutions are being re-organised through privatising and commercialising logics and that this is directly impacting schools.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Contributor Biographies -- Introduction: The 'Publicness' of Schooling -- Part I: Privatisation -- 1 What 'Good' is Schooling? The New Edu-Philanthropies and Education Reform -- 2 Charities and State Schooling Privatisations in Aotearoa New Zealand -- 3 Mobilising Neoliberal Discourse and Fostering New Subjectivities: The Eclectic Role of Philanthropy in Contemporary Global Education Governance -- 4 Interrogating the Private in Public School Outsourcing in Liberia -- 5 Hybrid Models of Delivery: State Mandated Public-Private Partnerships in India -- Part II: Commercialisation -- 6 Edu-Business in Finnish Schooling -- 7 High-Stakes Accountability and the Expansion of a School Improvement Industry in Chile: A Public-Private Sector Comparison -- 8 The Flow of Public Funding to Private Actors in Education: The Swedish Case -- 9 Teacher Concerns Regarding Commercialisation -- Part III: Publicness -- 10 Nationhood, Sex and the Family: Neoconservatism and the Moral Dilemmas of Privatisation in Schooling -- 11 Buying and Selling the Public School in the Market: The Politics of Space and Boundary Crossings for Urban School Choosers -- 12 Explaining Publicness: A Typology for Understanding the Provision of Schooling in Contemporary Times -- Conclusion: Beyond Publicness? Key Questions and Implications -- Index.

This book questions how the public nature of schooling is changing at the hands of privatised and commercialised policy reforms. It argues that public institutions are being re-organised through privatising and commercialising logics and that this is directly impacting schools.

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