Privatisation and Commercialisation in Public Education - 9780367351458

Taylor & Francis

Privatisation and Commercialisation in Public EducationHow the Public Nature of Schooling is Changing\nAuthor(s): Anna Hogan, Greg Thompson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367351458, 978-0367351458\nSynopsis\nPrivatisation and Commercialisation in Public Education asks how publicness is being redefined through the restructuring of nominally public school systems. Over the past few decades, governments have engineered a wave of reforms in their public systems opening them to privatisation and commercialisation. In public education systems competition, choice and autonomy have become entrenched vectors of these reforms.\n\nThis edited collection carefully examines the difference between privatisation and commercialisation and traces the varying effects privatised and commercialised policy reforms have had in different educational contexts. Many countries have approached the thorny issues of school choice and schoo.