Researching the Global Education Industry - Commodification, the Market and Business Involvement

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-country case studies, the book focuses on key issues related to the study of the Global Education Industry in an international context, discussing the rationales, processes and impacts of current developments. This comprehensive book will be of interest and value to scholars and researchers of the GEI, as well as policy makers.

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.