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Direct linkCone, 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
Lubienski, Christopher A., Ed.; Brewer, T. Jameson, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2019
In an age of consumer choice, decentralization, and deregulation in education, policymakers often demonstrate surprisingly little awareness of how popular reforms impact teaching and teacher education. This raises a number of questions: To what extent has the push for privatization and marketization of education shaped how we recruit and train the…
Descriptors: Privatization, Preservice Teacher Education, Educational Change, Commercialization
Josh Cowen – Harvard Education Press, 2024
In "The Privateers," Josh Cowen lays bare the surprising history of tax-funded school choice programs in the United States and warns of the dangers of education privatization. A former evaluator of state and local school voucher programs, Cowen demonstrates how, as such programs have expanded in the United States, so too has the…
Descriptors: Political Influences, Financial Support, School Choice, Privatization
Carol A. Mullen; Tara C. Bartlett – Education Inquiry, 2024
Controversy is intensifying with the rapid spread of charter schools and their domination of the education reform agenda. As charter enrolment increases in the USA, inequities in education worsen. This article contributes to the debate on contemporary education policy by critically examining charter issues from the US literature and stakeholder…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Public Schools, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Zoellner, Don – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2020
In a number of advanced market democracies the role of public technical and vocational education and training institutions has been called into question. This is one result of a singular dominant public policy discourse favouring the provision of public services through contracting out in competitive markets. With the limitations of this default…
Descriptors: Public Education, Vocational Education, Competition, Privatization
Thrupp, Martin; O'Neill, John; Powell, Darren; Butler, Philippa – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2020
This article sets out to demonstrate the considerable extent to which the New Zealand school system has become saturated by private interests, and to explain this development over time. It is the first such overview of the privatisation of schooling in the New Zealand context. The analysis illustrates that the rise of private actors has involved…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Privatization, Educational Development, Politics of Education
Lee, Trevor Tsz-lok; Kwan, Paula; Li, Benjamin Yuet Man – International Journal of Educational Management, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to systematically analyze the neoliberal challenges and problems facing public schools in the particular Hong Kong context. Design/methodology/approach: Based on a systematic and critical analysis on the history and socio-political context of Hong Kong's school policies and practice as well as the official…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Public Schools, Governance
Wukich, Clayton – Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2023
Enrollment pressures and other considerations spur Master of Public Administration online offerings, and specific skillsets are needed for implementation. Online program management providers (OPMs) are for-profit companies that bundle services to establish academic programs in exchange for tuition revenue sharing agreements, upfront fees, or a…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Public Administration Education, Online Courses, Distance Education
Hogan, Anna; Thompson, Greg; Mockler, Nicole; Johnson, Rebecca – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2022
This paper uses Anderson's notion of 'imagined community' to argue that how people think about the publicness of their school system provides insight into the functioning and flourishing of communities, societies and nations. We focus on the privatisation of public schooling in Alberta, Canada and Northern England to highlight tensions between the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Privatization, Public Schools
Wagle, Udaya – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2022
The higher education system in Nepal has witnessed major achievements and challenges in the past few decades. This paper takes stock of the way the system has evolved and is now mismanaged, with a particular attention to the overall structure, financial management, quality control, and human resources that are central to fulfilling its societal…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Privatization, Money Management, Educational Finance
Fontdevila, Clara; Verger, Antoni; Avelar, Marina – Critical Studies in Education, 2021
This paper examines the increasingly diverse range of roles played by the corporate sector in shaping education policy. While a growing body of scholarship has documented the deepening embeddedness of the corporate sector within policy-making processes, empirical research on the strategies mobilized by corporate actors remains unsystematised and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Corporations, Private Sector, Educational Policy
Brent Edwards, D., Jr.; Caravaca, Alejandro; Moschetti, Mauro C. – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2021
This paper draws on the literature on network governance and new philanthropy to characterize and explain the increased involvement of non-State actors in education policymaking in the Dominican Republic. The study reveals, first, how network governance has intensified since 2010 through hybrid public-private spaces of agenda setting, second, how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Networks, Governance, Private Financial Support
Gutiérrez, Gabriel; Carrasco, Alejandro – British Educational Research Journal, 2021
Socioeconomic segregation continues to be a central issue for education systems in which market-driven reforms have been implemented. This study analyses trends of socioeconomic segregation in Chile (1999-2018), considering a period with an absence of policies aimed at reducing segregation (1999-2007) and a later stage (2008-2015) when measures…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Influences, Socioeconomic Status, Advantaged
Fitch, E. Frank; Hulgin, Kathleen M. – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2018
The current movement toward increasing privatization in general and market education in particular has been extensively examined in terms of its neoliberal roots and incompatibility with the aims of public, democratic education. This analysis presents a different critique, one that draws upon current economic theory and research to challenge the…
Descriptors: Privatization, Models, General Education, Business Administration Education
Douglas E. Bell – Multilingual Matters, 2024
Since its inception in the 1960s, the field of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) has enjoyed a period of almost continual expansion and growth and now represents a multi-million dollar industry worldwide. This book provides readers with a critical and comprehensive overview of EAP's birth, its historical development and its ongoing trajectory,…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Privatization
