Public Private Partnerships in Education: New Actors and Modes of Governance in a Globalizing World

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Susan Robertson, Karen Mundy, Antoni Verger
Edward Elgar Publishing, Jan 1, 2012 - Education - 320 pages
'Far from simply being a form of cost sharing between the "state" and the "market," PPP has been celebrated by some, and condemned by others, as the champion of change in the new millennium. This book has been written by the best m
 

Contents

1 An introduction to public private partnerships and education governance
1
history and conceptual debates
19
2 Governing education through public private partnerships
21
New potential or privatizing public goods?
43
4 Public private partneships neoliberal globalization and democratization
63
PART II Understanding transnational PPP actors
79
5 The role of the International Finance Corporation in the promotion of public private partnerships for educational development
81
International trade regulation and the constitution of a global education marketplace
104
A case study of corporateled PPPs in education
182
evidence from the field
199
10 The role and impact of public private partnerships in education
201
11 Do public private partnerships fulfill the right to education? An examination of the role of nonstate actors in advancing equity equality and justice
217
12 Is lowfee private primary schooling affordable for the poor? Evidence from rural India
243
13 Why girls education rather than gender equality? The strange political economy of PPPs in Pakistan
259
The case of Fe y Alegria schools in Peru
277
Index
296

Mapping the terrain
128
Why American corporate philanthropy alone will not educate the most marginalized
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