Public Private Partnerships in Education

Edited by Susan L. Robertson, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK, Karen Mundy, University of Toronto, Canada, Antoni Verger, Professor, Department of Sociology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain and Francine Menashy, University of Massachusetts, US

'Far from simply being a form of cost sharing between the ''state'' and the ''market,'' PPP has been celebrated by some, and condemned by others, as the champion of change in the new millennium. This book has been written by the best minds in education policy, political economy, and development studies. They convincingly argue that public private partnership represents a new mode of governance that ranges from covert support of the private sector (vouchers, subsidies) to overt collaboration with corporate actors in the rapidly growing education industry. The analyses are simply brilliant and indispensable for understanding how and why this particular best/worst practice went global.'--Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Columbia University, New York, US

• Contents:1. An Introduction to Public Private Partnerships and Education GovernanceSusan L. Robertson, Karen Mundy, Antoni Verger and Francine MenashyPART I: THE RISE OF PPPs IN EDUCATION: HISTORY AND CONCEPTUAL DEBATES2. Governing Education through Public Private PartnershipsSusan L. Robertson and Antoni Verger3. International PPPs in Education: New Potential or Privatizing Public Goods?Alexandra Draxler4. Public Private Partnerships, Neoliberal Globalization and DemocratizationMark GinsburgPART II: UNDERSTANDING TRANSNATIONAL PPP ACTORS5. The Role of the International Finance Corporation in the Promotion of Public Private Partnerships for Educational Development Karen Mundy and Francine Menashy6. The GATS Game-changer: International Trade Regulation and the Constitution of a Global Education MarketplaceAntoni Verger and Susan L. Robertson7. Private Foundations, Philanthropy and Partnership in Education and Development: Mapping the Terrain Prachi Srivastava and Su-Ann Oh 8. A Disconnect between Motivations and Education Needs: Why American Corporate Philanthropy Alone Will Not Educate the Most MarginalizedJustin van Fleet 9. Microsoft Corporation: A Case Study of Corporate-led PPPs in EducationZahra BhanjiPART III: THE IMPACT OF PPPs IN EDUCATION: EVIDENCE FROM THE FIELD10. The Role and Impact of Public Private Partnerships in EducationFelipe Barrera-Osorio, Juliana Guaqueta and Harry Anthony Patrinos 11. Do Public Private Partnerships Fulfil the Right to Education? An Examination of the Role of Non-state Actors in Advancing Equity, Equality and Justice Maria Ron-Balsera and Akanksha A. Marphatia12. Is Low-fee Private Primary Schooling Affordable for the Poor? Evidence from Rural IndiaJoanna Härmä and Pauline Rose13. Why Girls’ Education Rather than Gender Equality? The Strange Political Economy of PPPs in PakistanShailaja Fennell14. The Role of Central Management Structures in Public Private Partnerships: The Case of Fe y Alegría Schools in PeruAnalía V. JaimovichIndex