This book questions how the public nature of schooling is changing at the hands of privatised and commercialised policy reforms. It argues that public institutions are being re-organised through privatising and commercialising logics and that this is directly impacting schools.
'There is a quiet revolution underway in our schools - a fundamental shift from public service to private interests and business practices. The collection illustrates and examines these interests and practices at work in diverse locations around the world. This is a crucial and critical resource for anyone who wants to understand the state of education now.' - Stephen Ball, Emeritus Professor of Sociology of Educationat, Institute of Education, University College London, UK
'Hogan and Thompson have assembled the most prolific thinkers to investigate the relationship between the state, education businesses, and edu-philanthropies. Different from most other books that merely document the global spread of neo-liberal reforms, the authors of this book analyze what these reforms have done ten, twenty or thirty years later to education as a public good.' - Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA