Public Private Partnerships in Education: New Actors and Modes of Governance in a Globalizing World

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Public Private Partnerships in Education: New Actors and Modes of Governance in a Globalizing World

Author(s): Susan L. Robertson (Editor), Karen Mundy (Editor), Antoni Verger (Editor), Francine Menashy (Editor)

  • Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
  • Publication Date: August 29, 2012
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 320 pages
  • ISBN-10: 0857930680
  • ISBN-13: 9780857930682

Book Description

This insightful book brings together both academics and researchers from a variety of international organizations and aid agencies to explore the complexities of public private partnerships (PPPs) as a resurgent, hybrid mode of educational governance that operates across scales, from the community to the global.

The contributors expertly study the different types of partnership arrangements and thoroughly critique the value of PPPs. Some chapters explore how PPPs, as a policy idea, have been constructed in transnational agendas for educational development and circulated globally, while other chapters explore the role and implications of PPPs in developing countries, providing arguments for and against an expanding reliance on PPPs in national educational systems.

The theoretical framing of the book draws upon leading theories of international relations to develop a unique perspective on the global governance of education. It will prove insightful for both scholars and policy makers in public policy and education.

Contributors: F. Barrera-Osorio, Z. Bhanji, A. Draxler, S. Fennell, M. Ginsburg, J. Guaqueta, J. Harma, A.V. Jaimovich, A.A. Marphatia, F. Menashy, K. Mundy, S.-A. Oh, H.A. Patrinos, S.L. Robertson, M. Ron-Balsera, P. Rose, P. Srivastava, J. van Fleet, A. Verger

Editorial Reviews

Review

‘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

About the Author

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

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