Clara Fontdevila – författare

Education privatization is a global phenomenon that crystallizes in countries with very different cultural, political, and economic backgrounds. In this book, the authors examine how privatization policies are being adopted and why so many countries are engaging in this type of education reform. The authors explore the contexts, key personnel, and policy initiatives that explain the worldwide advance of the private sector in education, and identify six different paths toward education privatization— as a drastic state sector reform (e.g., Chile, the U.K.), as an incremental reform (e.g., the U.S.A.), in social-democratic welfare states, historical public-private partnerships (e.g., Netherlands, Spain), de facto privatization in low-income countries, and privatization via disaster. Book Features: The first comprehensive, in-depth investigation of the political economy of education privatization at a global scale. An analysis of the different strategies, discourses, and agents that have contributed to advancing (and resisting) education privatization trends. An examination of the role of private corporations, policy entrepreneurs, philanthropic organizations, think-tanks, and teacher unions.

The Research Handbook on Education Privatization and Marketization analyses global trends related to two of the most debated topics in contemporary education policy.Comprehensive and multidisciplinary, this Research Handbook expands on new conceptual, theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of privatization and marketization. Chapters cover key themes including: new developments in the field such as tax credit scholarship and low fee private schools; the enactment and impact of privatization and marketization; and resistance movements and regulatory responses. Offering international insights from education, sociology, geography and political science, the authors conduct an in-depth examination of innovative frameworks for current and future studies, building upon existing knowledge and continuing an important dialogue in this evolving area of research.This is an indispensable resource for students and researchers of sociology, education studies, political science, and public policy. Practitioners and policymakers within international organisations, research foundations, think tanks, and civil society organisations will also find this Research Handbook beneficial.