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Maarit Alasuutari; Ville Ruutiainen; Kirsti Karila – Education Inquiry, 2024
Finland has traditionally had a universal early childhood education and care (ECEC) system like the other Nordic countries, but in the last 15 years this system has undergone considerable marketisation and privatisation suggested to enable parental choice of ECEC. Much of the existing research on parental ECEC decisions has been conducted in…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Access to Education
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Sachin Maharaj; Stephanie Tuters; Vidya Shah – Critical Education, 2024
Across Canada, school districts have been confronting a backlash to their equity and social justice initiatives. Critics of public education have been arguing that the solution to these controversies is to increase school choice. Using several examples from the United States, this paper argues that the endgame of these strategies is to undermine…
Descriptors: Critical Race Theory, School Choice, Private Schools, Public Education
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Gul Muhammad Rind; Kathleen Knight Abowitz – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2024
In many nations around the globe, including Pakistan, education is losing ground as a public good to become another market-based commodity as the state shrinks its responsibility to schooling. This presents challenges to democratic futures, and particularly for young democratic states such as Pakistan. The government of Pakistan is pouring a…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Democracy, Foreign Countries, Privatization