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Ford, Derek R. – Policy Futures in Education, 2014
Over the last two decades, educational theory has begun to incorporate analyses of space where formerly temporal considerations dominated. In this article, Marxist educational theory is spatialized by considering the school as (1) a form of fixed capital, (2) a crucial aspect of the built environment and (3) a relational space. The author begins…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Marxian Analysis, Physical Environment, School Space
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Beal, Brent D.; Olson Beal, Heather K. – Journal of School Choice, 2013
In this article, Brent Beal, and Heather Olson Beal respond to comments made about their article: "Rethinking the Market Metaphor: School Choice, the Common Good, and the National Football League," appearing in this issue of the Journal of School Choice. Comments were made by Vitteritti, Houck, Coulson, Bast, and Merrifield. In their…
Descriptors: School Choice, Private Schools, Public Schools, Educational Policy
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Gregorutti, Gustavo; Espinoza, Oscar; González, Luis Eduardo; Loyola, Javier – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2016
Over the last 30 years, Chile and Mexico have been implementing neoliberal policies to reform their higher education systems. This report compares the development and impact of those policies within three main areas in both countries, namely: (1) trends and characteristics of the growing private higher education sector, (2) commercialisation and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Privatization, Higher Education, Neoliberalism
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Lee, Siu-yau – Journal of Education and Work, 2016
This article explains why the massification of higher education in Hong Kong has, contrary to the predictions of received wisdom, failed to enhance the upward social mobility of the youth in the city. Building upon recent literature in political science, it argues that massification can take different forms, which in turn determine the effects of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Higher Education, Educational Change
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Farley-Ripple, Elizabeth; Jones, Akisha R. – International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2015
In the United States, federal and state accountability policies put demands on educational agencies that often exceed their capacity. As a result, a variety of educational organizations are contracted to design and implement policy. Programs and services offered by these contractors are not only instrumental in the process of mediating and…
Descriptors: Privatization, Vendors, Case Studies, Research and Development
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Tell, Shawgi – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2015
Charter schools are, by definition, contract schools. Charter means contract. To understand this fundamental feature of charter schools and the limits that stem from this aspect, this paper analyzes the topic of contracts and what contracting means for coming to terms with charter schools. This analysis locates charter schools in the realm of the…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Contracts, Privatization, Democratic Values
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Williams, Benjamin J.; Macdonald, Doune – Sport, Education and Society, 2015
Outsourcing is a complex, controversial and pervasive practice that is increasingly becoming a matter of concern for educational researchers. This article contributes to this literature by examining outsourcing practices related to health, sport and physical education (HSPE). Specifically, it reports data on specialist health and physical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outsourcing, Health, Athletics
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Gibson, Howard – Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 2015
During his quest for leadership of the English Conservative Party, David Cameron declared his intention to turn Britain into a Big Society. In May 2010, having gained office as Prime Minister, he unveiled a string of policies to bring his vision to fruition. After five years, however, talk of the Big Society has withered in public debate such that…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Citizenship
González, Cristina; Pedraja, Liliana – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2015
President Barack Obama recently announced a proposal to eliminate tuition charges at community colleges so that everyone can easily complete the first two years of a university education. At the same time, the administration is creating new regulations to curb the worst abuses of for-profit universities. This suggests that the country has reached…
Descriptors: Privatization, Access to Education, Tuition, Educational History
Nguyen, Lan Chi; Hamid, M. Obaidul; Renshaw, Peter – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2016
Although the teaching of English as a foreign language in primary schools has emerged as one of the major language-in-education policy decisions, students' perspectives on primary English have received very little research attention. Drawing on data from a larger study, this paper depicts primary school students' lived experiences in the English…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction, Educational Policy
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Aubry, Sylvain; Dorsi, Delphine – Oxford Review of Education, 2016
Part of the debate on the impact of privatisation in and of education lies in determining against which standards of evidence should the phenomenon be assessed. The questions "what impacts of privatisation in education are we measuring?" and its corollary "what education system do we wish to have?" are crucial to determining…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Privatization, Private Education, Civil Rights Legislation
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Milley, Peter – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2016
The last 3 decades have witnessed the rise of reforms aimed at conjoining Canadian universities to the economic system. Critics have pointed out how reforms have emphasized economic utility in universities to the detriment of their sociocultural mission, producing negative effects. One curricular innovation that has spread in tandem with reforms…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Higher Education, Case Studies, Educational Change
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Imsen, Gunn; Blossing, Ulf; Moos, Lejf – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The Nordic Education Model was an important part of the social democratic welfare state for many years in the second half of the 20th century. Since the millennium, transnational agencies have drawn education from the realm of politics into a global market place by advocating strategies such as efficiency, competition, decentralisation, governing…
Descriptors: Models, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Efficiency
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Verger, Antoni; Fontdevila, Clara; Zancajo, Adrián – Journal of Education Policy, 2017
Over the last two decades, education privatization has become a widespread phenomenon, affecting most education systems and giving place to a consistent increase in private school enrolment globally. However, far from being a monolithic phenomenon, privatization advances through a variety of context-sensitive policy processes that translate into…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Privatization, Global Approach, Educational Policy
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Madeloni, Barbara – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2014
Neoliberal policies in teacher education marginalise faculty voice, narrow conceptions of teaching and learning and redefine how we know ourselves, our students and our work. Pressured within audit culture and the constant surveillance of accountability regimes to participate in practices that dehumanise, silence and de-form education, teacher…
Descriptors: Ethics, Educational Change, Resistance to Change, Neoliberalism
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