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Peter Moss; Linda Mitchell – UCL Press, 2024
Written by two leading international experts, "Early Childhood in the Anglosphere" offers a unique comparison of early childhood education and care services, and parenting leave, across seven high-income Anglophone countries. Peter Moss and Linda Mitchell explore what these systems have in common, including the dominance of 'childcare'…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Privatization, Commercialization
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Kamenarac, Olivera – Policy Futures in Education, 2023
Neoliberal reforms have transformed the early childhood education (ECE) landscape worldwide. The purpose of ECE, what counts as early education and care, and "in" ECE has been dangerously narrowed to the production of human capital and rationalised by the myth that investing in young children (human capital) will guarantee a better…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, Neoliberalism, Professional Autonomy
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Hogan, Anna; Thompson, Greg; Mockler, Nicole – Comparative Education, 2022
In Anglophone countries, narratives of public schooling tend to emphasise generic hopes about schooling as central to the idea of a public good, including fostering community, delivering equality and protecting broad notions of democracy. However, as public systems become more open to privatised logics, these hopes sit alongside fears for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Privatization, Educational Policy
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Thrupp, Martin; Powell, Darren; O'Neill, John; Chernoff, Sandor; Seppänen, Piia – New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 2021
This article seeks to describe a range of enablers of, and constraints on, private actors in New Zealand schooling, using scholarly, polity and mass media sources. It focuses particularly on the decades since the educational reforms of the 4th Labour Government in the 1980s. The article begins by providing a brief background on educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Privatization, Educational Change, Governance
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Naomi Pears-Scown – Policy Futures in Education, 2024
This piece demonstrates a creative practice that invites educators from diverse backgrounds to consider the memories, stories, and cultural histories alive within them. How we carry and know our own stories influences how we can critically and reflexively enact or challenge policies of cultural responsivity in education. Given that the political…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Story Telling, Educational Policy, Culturally Relevant Education
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Thompson, Greg; Mockler, Nicole; Hogan, Anna – European Educational Research Journal, 2022
This paper explores perceptions of work intensification around the world. Underpinning this analysis is C. Wright Mills' (1959) argument that many personal troubles are public issues, and the notion that a significant dimension of the privatisation of public education, a concern of public education advocates worldwide, is the ways in which school…
Descriptors: Accountability, Privatization, Public Education, Governance