Book review: Review symposium: Education plc. Understanding private sector participation in public sector education

By A. Bathmaker, S. Robertson, R. Slee. 2008

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The Hub and the Spokes (2014, background): “Their investigations have produced important network analyses of the new actors, intermediaries, and foundations in the United States and other countries with similar education reform movements (Ball, 2007; Ball & Juemann, 2012; Demarrais, 2006; Ferris et al., 2008; Zehr, 2011).”
Advocacy networks, choice and private schooling of the poor in India (2010, background): “Both are firmly embedded in the generic nostrums of © 2010 The Author(s) 325 international management consultancies and education businesses (see Ball 2007, 2009).”
Privatising education, privatising education policy, privatising educational research: network governance and the ‘competition state’ (2009, background): “It expands and develops a set of analyses of such privatisations begun in previous work (Ball 2007), which mapped and categorised the participation of education businesses in a whole range of public sector education services both in the UK and overseas.”
The social justice implications of privatisation in education governance frameworks: a relational account (2013, background): “…shows that enabling and encouraging middle-class parents to choose their child’s school tends to produce a worse outcome for working-class families whose resources and positioning in the social structure mean their capacity to influence action is limited (Ball, 2003; Gewirtz, Ball, & Bowe, 1995).”
Varieties of academic capitalism and entrepreneurial universities (2017, background): “In addition, at the macro level, states may open the education and research sector to private enterprise and foreign direct investment (cf. Ball 2007) 5.”
Mapping the terrain: Teach For America, charter school reform, and corporate sponsorship (2014, background): “In action, neoliberalism favors increased privatization and deregulation and decreased state intervention, coupled with the defunding of public services, such as higher education, libraries, and health care (Apple 2006; Ball 2007; Burch 2009; Harvey 2005; Hursh 2005).”