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Direct linkHolmqvist, Diana; Fejes, Andreas; Nylander, Erik – European Educational Research Journal, 2021
Privatisation of public education is becoming more and more common across the world. As much current research presupposes causal links between the degree of privatisation and issues of competition and student's free choice, we see a need for research on other ways of organising the presence of private providers in public education. In this…
Descriptors: Privatization, Public Education, Educational Finance, Foreign Countries
Chenyi Zhao – Policy Futures in Education, 2024
This paper examines the "Double Reduction" policy issued by the Chinese government in 2021 by using a Critical Discourse Problematization Framework (CDPF) that combines Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and what's the problem represented to be (WPR) approach. The study points out that the changing discourse of equality and equity in…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Educational Policy
María Ivana Soler; Sebastián Correa-Otto – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2025
We study the role of the State in education through the most significant government periods in Argentina in the last 50 years. We use a sociocultural approach, contemplating the historical development of educational policies in the country, exploring conceptual frameworks applicable in the investigation of the State, privatization and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Government Role, Global Approach, Privatization
Download full textParcerisa, Lluís; Pagès, Marcel; Termes, Andreu; Collet-Sabé, Jordi – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2022
External and standardized assessments based on student results are a contested education policy among school actors. Movements of opposition have emerged in different countries, especially in those contexts with high-stakes accountability systems. However, this phenomenon has not been analyzed in soft accountability systems. The objective of this…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Standardized Tests, Educational Policy, Accountability
Fjellman, Anna-Maria; Haley, Aimee – Policy Futures in Education, 2023
The article re-imagines the current developments of Swedish education into a possible future. Historically, education was organized and funded by the state; however, reforms towards privatization in the 1990s implemented school choice, private schools and a tax-financed voucher system with the option of turning profits on education. A new judicial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Privatization, Educational Change, School Choice
Gerrard, Jessica; Barron, Rosie – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2020
This paper focuses on an area of privatisation that has not to date received significant attention in educational research: the privatisation of infrastructure, facilities and maintenance, and in particular the labour of cleaning. Analysing the case of Victoria, Australia, we demonstrate how successive governments have defended the privatisation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Education, Privatization, School Maintenance
Ebru Eren – Online Submission, 2023
Privatization of education has expanded dramatically worldwide in the last two decades, and Turkey is no exception. It is seen that the developments affecting the transformation of public services began with the implementation of neoliberal education policies, especially after the 1980s. These policies have led to a significant transformation in…
Descriptors: Privatization, School Choice, Public Education, Foreign Countries
Antonina Santalova Ed.; Kaire Põder Ed. – Oxford University Press, 2024
Privatization of education has become a prevalent global trend, representing a significant shift from viewing education as a public good to considering it as a private commodity. This transformation is closely tied to the modernization of the state under the principles of neoliberalism. A comprehensive analysis, as presented in this book using…
Descriptors: Privatization, Public Education, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis
Cone, 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
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
Çelik, Çetin; Özdemir, Tugçe – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2022
The gradual restructuring of the political economy of Turkey after the 1980s has changed the positioning of the middle class and the importance of its social, economic, and cultural capitals. In particular, lowering the quality of public education through systematic privatization and Islamisation has constituted a significant threat to this class'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Development, Middle Class, Social Capital
Saltman, Kenneth J. – London Review of Education, 2020
This article considers how the development of for-profit artificial intelligence (AI) technologies fosters the privatization of public education and erodes the values and practices of democratic education. The introduction situates the advent of digital technologies in the context of the structural economic and ideological shifts of the past 40…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Public Education, Democracy, Privatization
Tell, Shawgi – Democracy & Education, 2021
Frenkiewich and Onosko (2020) maintain that American public education has functioned as a pillar of democracy and a force for progress for most of the twentieth century, but they worry that a major turn to school privatization in recent years will undermine the democratic mission and vision of public schooling and harm society as well. The authors…
Descriptors: Public Education, Privatization, Low Achievement, Neoliberalism
Siegel-Hawley, Genevieve; Frankenberg, Erica; McDermott, Kathryn; McCollum, Sarah; Scott, Janelle; DeBray, Elizabeth – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2023
The three terms comprising the Obama and Trump presidencies provide an opportunity to understand the evolution of race-conscious education policy in an increasingly multiracial, unequal, and divided society. Through document review and interviews with civil rights lawyers, government officials, congressional staffers, and intermediary organization…
Descriptors: Racial Attitudes, Racism, Educational Policy, Presidents
