Global Education Inc.: New Policy Networks and the Neoliberal Imaginary

By S. Ball. 2012

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The Privatization of Education: A Political Economy of Global Education Reform (2016, background): “In some cases, the delegation by governments to consultancy firms is so strong that these firms even draft education legislation (Ball, 2012).”
The rise of international large-scale assessments and rationales for participation (2017, background): “…(Dale, 2000), the politics and economics of borrowing and lending (Steiner-Khamsi 2010), the policy mobilities approach (Rizvi and Lingard 2010; Ball 2012) or, more recently, cultural political economy (Robertson and Dale 2015; Verger, Fontdevila and Zancajo 2016), put the focus on drivers of…”
The OECD and global governance in education (2013, background): “What we see is an alignment across and creation of epistemic communities at OECD and national policy-making levels (Ball 2012).”
‘Catalyst data’: perverse systemic effects of audit and accountability in Australian schooling (2013, background): “The increasing involvement of ‘edu-businesses’ (e.g. Pearson) in the testing and accountability agendas of governments is also a point that needs to be made (see Ball 2012).”