Marcelo (Hrsg.) Parreira Do Amaral

Researching the Global Education Industry

Commodification, the Market and Business Involvement

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This book examines how the Global Education Industry (GEI) has brokered, funded, and implemented new conceptualizations of 'good' education. With a focus on new private providers and policy actors in education, the authors of the book analyze the impact of the GEI on educational research, policy and practice. How did philanthropies and foundations manage to make their voices heard in school reform debates, what are the implication of digital technologies and data infrastructures on teaching and learning, and should the fast advance of the GEI be merely seen as a logical consequence of the commercialization of education? Moving beyond single-c… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Steiner-Khamsi, Gita (Hrsg.) / Thompson, Christiane (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-3-030-04235-6
EAN: 9783030042356
Produktnummer: 29471949
Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 295 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B15.3 cm x D2.1 cm 518 g
Auflage: 2019
Abbildungen: Book; 10 farbige Abbildungen, 10 farbige Tabellen, Bibliographie
Gewicht: 518

Über den Autor

Marcelo Parreira do Amaral is Professor of International and Comparative Education at the University of Münster, Germany. A member of the Network of Experts on the Social Aspects of Education funded by the European Commission, his research interests include international and comparative education, policy, and governance. Gita Steiner-Khamsi is Professor of Comparative and International Education at the Teachers College, Columbia University, USA and the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies, Switzerland. A past president of the Comparative and International Education Society and Director of NORRAG, her research interests focus on globalization, school reform and teacher policy in developing countries. Christiane Thompson is Professor of Theory and History of Education at the Goethe University Frankfurt / Main, Germany. Her research interests include the philosophy of education, cultural studies of education and educational research.