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Course date
July 25–29, 2011
Location
Budapest
Application deadline
Course delivery
In-person

The purpose of this course will be to examine a family of initiatives that aim at opening up the education sector to a greater range of private actors. We will look at why these developments are taking place now, the actors involved in advancing these initiatives, and what evidence from the field tells us about the opportunities and outcomes for various groups (the learner, families, the state, transnational firms, local entrepreneurs, venture philanthropy, consultants) and why these kinds of initiatives continue to be highly controversial. The aim of the summer school is therefore to examine education policy from the perspective of service delivery arrangements and will focus on a social justice lens through which to debate the consequences of changes in the coordination, governance, and provision of education services. Private provision and the privatizing of education services not only look different in different regions and countries of the world, but these services are shaped by a different set of dynamics between the global and the local, and between the state, economy, civil society, and religious organizations. The school will therefore also work with a range of country initiatives and case studies to trace out the issues involved, review the evidence, and consider the outcomes and alternatives. We will also propose a series of normative frameworks as a lens on the relation between education and social justice and as a means for assessing the nature of framing issues and shaping outcomes. Hybrid forms of education service provision have significant consequences for access, resourcing, governance, and achievements in and across national education systems. In turn, this has implications for social cohesion, economic development, and political engagement.

Course objectives

After this course, participants will be able to:

  • Locate new governance initiatives in education sectors in relation to wider transformations in the global political and cultural economy; education as a services sector; education as a tradeable commodity; education as a form of human capital and investment; education as a human right; education as a form of cultural capital; education as a means for emancipation; education as a cultural and class project.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of the complex nature of education governance that involves different actors, differing activities, and different scales on which to act.
  • Outline the nature of the conceptual complexities and empirical phenomena associated with PPPs as emerging, hybrid, forms of governance and their role in, and consequences for, the governance of the education sector, and new forms of privatization of education.
  • Develop a critical account of a range of education governance initiatives; from low-fee-schooling; Charter Schools; Shadow Schooling; PPPs, global transnational firms, such as GEMS, Cisco Systems; education consultants, such as CfBT, and so on.
  • Apply a theory of social justice to the framing and outcomes of new governance initiatives in education.

The course will be delivered using a range of formats; lectures, small group work, films, podcasts, and plenary activity. Students will be encouraged to read before the Summer School course, as well as during. They will also be expected to be actively involved in exploring ideas, and in offering their own experiences and reflections on the theories and issues being examined.

For more information on the course please contact Trine Petersen.

 

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