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Education plc - Understanding Private Sector Participation in Public Sector Education (Hardcover)
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Education plc - Understanding Private Sector Participation in Public Sector Education (Hardcover)
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Is the privatisation of state education defendable? Did the public
sector ever provide a fair education for all learners? In Education
plc, Stephen Ball provides a comprehensive, analytic and empirical
account of the privatisation of education. He questions the kind of
future we want for education and what role privatisation and the
private sector may have in that future. Using policy sociology to
describe and critically analyse changes in policy, policy
technologies and policy regimes, he looks at the ethical and
democratic impacts of these changes and raises the following
questions: Is there a legitimacy for privatisation based on the
convergence of interests between business and the 'third way'
state? Is the extent and value of private participation in public
education misunderstood? How is the selling of private company
services linked to the remodelling of schools? Why have the
technical and political issues of privatisation been considered but
ethical issues almost totally neglected? What is happening here,
beyond mere technical changes in the form of public service
delivery? Is education policy being spoken by new voices? Drawing
upon extensive documentary research and interviews with senior
executives from the leading 'education services industry'
companies, the author challenges preconceptions about
privatisation. He concludes that blanket defence of the public
sector as it was, over and against the inroads of privatisation, is
untenable, and that there is no going back to a past in which the
public sector as a whole worked well and worked fairly in the
interests of all learners, because there was no such past. This
book breaks new ground and builds on Stephen Ball's previous work
on education policy. It should appeal to those researching and
studying in the fields of social policy, policy analysis, sociology
of education, education research and social economics.
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