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Contrasting Dynamics in Education Politics of Extremes
This book aims to enhance understanding of school choice as a supra-national travelling policy, explored in two strikingly different societies: Latin American Chile and North European Finland. Chile was among the first countries to implement school choice as a policy, which it did comprehensively in the early 1980s through the creation of a market environment. Finland introduced parental choice of a school on a very moderate scale and without the market elements in the mid-1990s. Predominant aspects of Chilean basic schooling include provision by for-profit and non-profit private and municipal organisations, voucher system, parental co-payment and ranking lists. Finland persists in keeping e...
The Privatization of Education
Education privatization is a global phenomenon that has crystallized in countries with very different cultural, political, and economic backgrounds. In this book, the authors examine how privatization policies are being adopted and why so many countries are engaging in this type of education reform. The authors explore the contexts, key personnel, and policy initiatives that explain the worldwide advance of the private sector in education, and identify six different paths toward education privatization—as a drastic state sector reform (e.g., Chile, the U.K.), as an incremental reform (e.g., the U.S.A.), in social-democratic welfare states, as historical public-private partnerships (e.g., N...
Educational Markets and Segregation
This edited volume highlights the deep issues of the educational markets and school segregation from its origins to its effects. The book discusses both global trends as well as focalized examples. It’s based on a comprehensive review of existing literature and an in-depth analysis of two educational systems: The French-speaking community in Belgium and Chile. Both contexts are characterized by a high degree of segregation, a structural environment of free choice of schools and competition between public and private schools financed with public resources. This book provides an up-to-date synthesis of scientific knowledge on the issue of segregation and rigorous analyses of recent policies aimed at reducing segregation in educational systems. It highlights the complexity of a process of change, the importance of its legitimacy among the population and the need of identifying the ethical and social justice issues surrounding school segregation. By providing a solid theoretical and empirical synthesis, this book is a great resource to students, researchers and academics in education, as well as social scientists and policy-makers.
The Quantified School
This book develops a theoretically rich analysis of quantification and subjectivity, tracing new linkages between educational policy and everyday life in schools, diving deeper into ‘ordinary’ schools as they encounter and navigate quantified forms of recognition. With a focus on Chile as a critical case of neoliberal experimentation, this book investigates whether intense exposure to quantified forms of meaning and sense-making in school settings could develop into metrics-driven dispositions or attachments. Contemporary demands on schools for calculation, prediction, and comparison by the use of accountability tools like high-stakes testing, league tables, consequential inspection ratings and ‘progress’ measures evidence the relentless presence of quantification in teaching and learning. This book argues the importance of bridging political, sociological and anthropological literatures together with affect and subjectivity theories to understand the complex ways in which standardisation, optimisation, automation, and surveillance crystallise into quantification-based forms of intelligibility.
Educational Justice
This book presents a novel perspective on education as a social right. Literature on this topic has focused on inclusion as the universal concept whereby access to education is examined. As a moral principle, this concept opens new challenges in different ways if we take a deeper view into diverse contexts. What education? For what? For whom? Are we thinking about education because it will bring social justice in the future, or are we thinking of education as a just practice in the present? This book brings fresh theoretical and empirical perspectives on those questions, moving beyond a pure inclusion paradigm to a broader and context-oriented notion of educational justice. The chapters enga...
Sacar la voz
Este libro ofrece una útil contribución a la formación especializada de escritores, procurando la adquisición de las convenciones escritas con una perspectiva crítica, crucial para construir una voz propia en la academia. Sus capítulos abordan aspectos como las características de la comunicación académica, la adopción de un lenguaje no sexista o capacitista, la decisión del orden de autoría y la necesidad de reflexionar sobre las propias estrategias. Además, presenta un repertorio de géneros usuales y una introducción a formas alternativas de escritura y a la difusión del conocimiento. Sin duda, un aporte para las y los investigadores en formación.
Surveillance Education
Surveillance Education explores the pervasive use of digital surveillance technologies in schools and assesses its pernicious effects on students. Recognizing that the use of digital technologies will persist, the authors instead offer practical ways to ameliorate their impact. In our era of surveillance capitalism, digital media technologies are ever more intertwined into the educational process. Schools are presented with digital technologies as tools of convenience for gathering and grading student work, as tools of support to foster a more equitable learning environment, and as tools of safety for predicting or preventing violence or monitoring mental, emotional, and physical health. Des...
Mercado escolar
Mercado escolar y oportunidad educacional: libertad, diversidad y desigualdad, examina el comportamiento íntimo del sistema educacional chileno, tensionado entre incentivos y valores, entre clientes y ciudadanos. Este libro presenta un cuidadoso análisis sobre las consecuencias de la transformación cultural, iniciada hace casi cuatro décadas, que llevó a que la histórica distancia entre escuelas y mercados se redujera casi completamente en Chile. La relevancia de esta transformación se observa en el papel que la educación ha tomado en los debates políticos, académicos y ciudadanos actuales.
Privatización de lo público en el sistema escolar
Los textos que constituyen este libro se inscriben en el campo de investigación de políticas educacionales desde enfoques y metodologías provenientes de la sociología, la educación, la filosofía, la historia y la ciencia política, reconociendo como eje común el lugar de Chile en la agenda global de educación. En estos estudios, se hace evidente la reducción al ámbito económico de la complejidad de los procesos educativos, coincidiendo con la puesta en ejercicio de una serie de dispositivos que presionan a las instituciones educativas a integrar modalidades de gestión y ejercicio docente asociadas a conceptos controversiales de eficiencia, calidad y competencia.
Belonging in Changing Educational Spaces
This book explores the impacts on personal and professional, local and global forms of belonging in educational spaces amidst rapid changes shaped by globalization. Encouraging readers to consider the idea of belonging as an educational goal as much as a guiding educational strategy, this text forms a unique contribution to the field. Drawing on empirical and theoretical analyses, chapters illustrate how educational experience informs a sense of belonging, which is increasingly juxtaposed against a variety of global dynamics including neoliberalism, transnationalism, and global policy and practice discourses. Addressing phenomena such as refugee education, large-scale international assessmen...
