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Direct linkKerssens, Niels; Dijck, José van – Learning, Media and Technology, 2021
How does platformization work as vehicle for the integration of public online education into a private global digital infrastructure? And how can education technologies ('edtech') be governed at various levels to benefit the public good? In this article, we examine online environments in primary schools in The Netherlands, a traditionally strong…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Elementary Schools
Klees, Steven J. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2018
To experiment with the possible privatisation of its primary education system, Liberia initiated the Partnership Schools of Liberia (PSL), which turned over the management of 93 public schools to eight private contractors. A randomised controlled trial (RCT) study was initiated comparing the PSL schools with matched public schools and the results…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Privatization, Public Schools, Randomized Controlled Trials
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
