Researching the Global Education Industry [electronic resource] : Commodification, the Market and Business Involvement /
Parreira do Amaral, Marcelo.editor.
Steiner-Khamsi, Gita.editor.
Thompson, Christiane.editor.
This book examines how the Global Education Industry (GEI) has brokered, funded, and implemented new conceptualizations of 'good' education. With a focus on new private providers and policy actors in education, the authors of the book analyze the impact of the GEI on educational research, policy and practice. How did philanthropies and foundations manage to make their voices heard in school reform debates, what are the implication of digital technologies and data infrastructures on teaching and learning, and should the fast advance of the GEI be merely seen as a logical consequence of the commercialization of education? Moving beyond single-country case studies, the book focuses on key issues related to the study of the Global Education Industry in an international context, discussing the rationales, processes and impacts of current developments. This comprehensive book will be of interest and value to scholars and researchers of the GEI, as well as policy makers.
1. Introduction: Researching the Global Education Industry -- 2. Serial Entrepreneurs, Angel Investors, and Capex Light Edu-Business Start-Ups in India: Philanthropy, Impact Investing, and Systemic Educational Change -- 3. The Political Turn of Corporate Influence in Education: A Synthesis of Main Policy Reform Strategies -- 4. Advocacy Networks and Market Models for Education -- 5. UNESCO, Education, and the Private Sector: A Relationship on Whose Terms? -- 6. Embedding Education Research in the European Economic Imaginary? -- 7. The Global Education Industry, Data Infrastructures, and the Restructuring of Government School Systems -- 8. The Transformation of State Monitoring Systems in Germany and the US: Relating the Datafication and Digitalization of Education to the Global Education Industry -- 9. International Education Hubs as Competitive Advantage: Investigating the Role of the State as Power Connector in the Global Education Industry -- 10. The Globalized Expert: On the Dissemination and Authorization of Evidence-Based Education -- 11. Digitization, Disruption, and the "Society of Singularities": The Transformative Power of the Global Education Industry -- 12. Writing Global Education Policy Research -- 13. Conclusion: Changing Education in the GEI-Rationales, Logics, and Modes of Operation.
This book examines how the Global Education Industry (GEI) has brokered, funded, and implemented new conceptualizations of 'good' education. With a focus on new private providers and policy actors in education, the authors of the book analyze the impact of the GEI on educational research, policy and practice. How did philanthropies and foundations manage to make their voices heard in school reform debates, what are the implication of digital technologies and data infrastructures on teaching and learning, and should the fast advance of the GEI be merely seen as a logical consequence of the commercialization of education? Moving beyond single-country case studies, the book focuses on key issues related to the study of the Global Education Industry in an international context, discussing the rationales, processes and impacts of current developments. This comprehensive book will be of interest and value to scholars and researchers of the GEI, as well as policy makers.
Educational Policy and Politics.
International and Comparative Education.