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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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Powell, Darren – Sport, Education and Society, 2015
In this article, I examine the practice of outsourcing physical education (PE) lessons to external sports organisations. I draw from ethnographic research conducted with two primary schools in New Zealand to illuminate how outsourcing interconnects with the privatisation of education. Using Foucault's notion of government, I demonstrate how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Privatization