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Pandemic Acceleration: COVID-19 and the Emergency Digitalization of European Education
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Cone, Lucas; Brøgger, Katja; Berghmans, Mieke; Decuypere, Mathias; Förschler, Annina; Grimaldi, Emiliano; Hartong, Sigrid; Hillman, Thomas; Ideland, Malin; Landri, Paolo; van de Oudeweetering, Karmijn; Player-Koro, Catarina; Bergviken Rensfeldt, Annika; Rönnberg, Linda; Taglietti, Danilo; Vanermen, Lanze – European Educational Research Journal, 2022
With schools and universities closing across Europe, the COVID-19 lockdown left actors in the field of education battling with the unprecedented challenge of finding a meaningful way to keep the wheels of education turning online. The sudden need for digital solutions across the field of education resulted in the emergence of a variety of digital…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
New Public Management Reforms and Industrial Relations in the Italian Education System. A Cultural Political Economy Approach
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Peruzzo, Francesca; Grimaldi, Emiliano; Arienzo, Alessandro; D'Onofrio, Giuseppe; Franchi, Claudio; Sebastianelli, Pietro – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2023
This article focuses on the relation between new public management (NPM) reforms and changing patterns of industrial relations (IRs) and social dialogue in the Italian education system. Drawing on data from the research project 'Social dialogue and industrial relations in education: The challenges of multi-level governance and privatisation in…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Administrative Organization, Governance, Privatization
School Evaluation and Consultancy in Italy. Sliding Doors towards Privatisation?
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Serpieri, Roberto; Grimaldi, Emiliano; Vatrella, Sandra – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2015
This article focuses on the increasing centrality assumed by non-educational consultants in the processes of policy design and knowledge production about education in Italy. We identify the recent establishment of the National School Evaluation System as a key policy trajectory and we focus on the case of the last policies to evaluate Italian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Evaluation, Governance, Educational Policy
Old and New Markets in Education: Austerity, Standards and ICT as Pushes towards Privatisation(s) in Italy
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Grimaldi, Emiliano – European Educational Research Journal, 2013
This article deals with the issue of privatisation(s) in the field of education. In doing so, it focuses on three distinct, although interrelated, processes currently being experienced in the Italian education system: (a) the widening of the spaces for private schooling; (b) the ongoing privatisation of policy and the related blurring of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Privatization, Educational Policy, Public Schools
Privatising Education Policy-Making in Italy: New Governance and the Reculturing of a Welfarist Education State
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Grimaldi, Emiliano; Serpieri, Roberto – Education Inquiry, 2013
Philanthropies and private foundations are increasingly acting as key nodes of the policy assemblages through which neoliberal and neomanagerialist policies are entering the field of education in Italy. In a country where public school 'ineffectiveness' and 'resistance to innovation' are taken for granted nowadays, policy…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Neoliberalism, School Effectiveness, Entrepreneurship