Review of The homeschool choice: Parents and the privatization of education

How has education for refugees been shaped by broader dynamics of educational privatization? This paper argues that the invoking of the ‘refugee crisis’ narrative has been a crucial force in facilitating the privatization of this sector. The urgency of crisis helps to naturalize private actors’ participation in refugees’ education as equal partners to host governments, multilateral agencies, and civil society. Consistent with Stephen Ball’s (2012) distinction between privatization in and of education, the privatization of refugee education also advances through two dimensions: the creation of a new space – a new ‘market’ – for private actors, and the infusion of market and business principles such as ‘innovation’ into all aspects of education. The crisis narrative has created a new ‘horizon of taken-for-granted’ (Hall, 1993), where it is simply natural that private actors must participate in the assumption of the traditional responsibilities of the state in providing education for refugees.

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Neoliberalism in Chile

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History ◽

10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.013.99 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Alison J. Bruey

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

21St Century ◽

State Policy ◽

Economic Crises ◽

High Unemployment ◽

Pension Systems ◽

Public Protest ◽

The World ◽

Privatization Of Education ◽

Pinochet Dictatorship

Chile was one of the first countries in the world to undergo a transition to neoliberalism. Neoliberalism became official state policy in 1975, during the Pinochet dictatorship (1973–1990), during which time it generated two deep economic crises and historicall high unemployment. Since 1990, civilian administrations have continued to administer the neoliberal model, popularly referred to as el modelo, with selective reforms. Despite economic growth and reductions in poverty rates since 1990, el modelo has become ever more controversial. In the 21st century, public protest has increased as broad sectors of society negatively affected by the privatization of education, healthcare, and pension systems, among other ills, have organized collectively to express their discontent.

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Poor Choices: The Sociopolitical Context of “Grand Theft Education”

Urban Education ◽

10.1177/0042085916651322 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 55 (1) ◽

pp. 3-37 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Leah Faw ◽

Huriya Jabbar

Keyword(s):

Educational Resources ◽

Educational Services ◽

Private Goods ◽

High Profile ◽

Sociopolitical Context ◽

Privatization Of Education ◽

The Common ◽

School Assignment

In recent years, districts have paid special attention to the common practice of “district hopping,” families bending geographic school assignment rules by sending a child to a school in a district where the child does not formally reside—usually to a district that is more desirable because of higher performing schools or greater educational resources. In several high-profile cases, mothers who engaged in district hopping were charged with “grand theft” of educational services. By situating these cases in the broader context of market-based reforms, we refocus attention on the responses of districts rather than the actions of parents. We argue that increased privatization of education and growing dominance of a “private-goods” model of schooling create the conditions necessary for framing these actions as “theft.”

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The privatization of education in Argentina

Journal of Education Policy ◽

10.1080/02680930110087834 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 16 (6) ◽

pp. 585-595 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Mariono Naradowski ◽

Myrian Andrada

Keyword(s):

Privatization Of Education

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Occupational Mobility among the Kaivarttas (Fisherman Community) in a Village Setting

Regular issue - International Journal of Management and Humanities ◽

10.35940/ijmh.e0552.014520 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (5) ◽

pp. 123-125

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Urban Area ◽

Life Style ◽

Occupational Mobility ◽

Cultural Factors ◽

Fishing Communities ◽

Privatization Of Education

Kaivarttas are one of the major fishing communities of Assam. In the last few decades, the processes like globalization of marketing, liberalization of different policies and privatization of education have changed the life style of the Kaivarttas, not only in an urban area but village too. Now, they are engaged in different areas occupations including government, private and entrepreneurial works. As the occupation is closely interrelated with socio-economic and cultural factors, therefore, it is important to make a study to understand their adoption of new occupation in response to the process of social change. Present study is undertaken into two Kaivartta populated village in Majuli Island to understand the occupational mobility among them. The study shows that most of the villagers have taken up new occupations rather than fishing.

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The Reflection of Neoliberal Economic Policies on Education: Privatization of Education in Turkey

European Journal of Educational Research ◽

10.12973/eu-jer.7.2.341 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

Keyword(s):

Economic Policies ◽

Privatization Of Education ◽

Education In Turkey

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Take the Gift of My Child and Return Something to Me: On Children, Chagga Trust, and a New American Evangelical Orphanage on Mount Kilimanjaro

Journal of Religion in Africa ◽

10.1163/15700666-12341263 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 43 (4) ◽

pp. 379-395 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Amy Stambach ◽

Aikande C. Kwayu

Keyword(s):

The Poor ◽

Mount Kilimanjaro ◽

Social Entity ◽

Privatization Of Education ◽

The Gift ◽

Local Leaders

AbstractThis essay examines local and international Christian efforts on Mount Kilimanjaro to educate children. A prevailing idea among people who live on the mountain is that children engender trust and trade. This idea is illuminated through the adage ‘Take the gift of my child and return something to me’ and is embedded in the concept of Chagga trust. The latter is both an ethical mode and a social entity. Local ideas of children and trust partly overlap with but also differ from American evangelical missionaries’ views of children as needing to be safeguarded. Analysis of differences reveals that while religious missions have long played a role in providing education, the dynamics of privatization have changed the manner in which local leaders and international missionaries interact. Previous interactions were regular and routine; today’s are fewer, more contractual, and more formalized. The analysis presented here broadens and qualifies existing research that simply states that evangelicalism and the privatization of education helps the poor.

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