Researching the Global Education Industry

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Researching the Global Education Industry

   • Christiane Thompson, Marcelo Parreira do Amaral

   Pages 1-21

3. Serial Entrepreneurs, Angel Investors, and Capex Light Edu-Business Start-Ups in India: Philanthropy, Impact Investing, and Systemic Educational Change

   • Stephen J. Ball

   Pages 23-46

4. The Political Turn of Corporate Influence in Education: A Synthesis of Main Policy Reform Strategies

   • Clara Fontdevila, Antoni Verger

   Pages 47-68

5. Advocacy Networks and Market Models for Education

   • Christopher Lubienski

   Pages 69-86

6. UNESCO, Education, and the Private Sector: A Relationship on Whose Terms?

   • Natasha Ridge, Susan Kippels

   Pages 87-113

7. Embedding Education Research in the European Economic Imaginary?

   • Marcelo Parreira do Amaral

   Pages 115-133

8. The Global Education Industry, Data Infrastructures, and the Restructuring of Government School Systems

   • Bob Lingard

   Pages 135-155

9. The Transformation of State Monitoring Systems in Germany and the US: Relating the Datafication and Digitalization of Education to the Global Education Industry

   • Sigrid Hartong

   Pages 157-180

10. International Education Hubs as Competitive Advantage: Investigating the Role of the State as Power Connector in the Global Education Industry

    • Marvin Erfurth

    Pages 181-202

11. The Globalized Expert: On the Dissemination and Authorization of Evidence-Based Education

    • Christiane Thompson

    Pages 203-224

12. Digitization, Disruption, and the “Society of Singularities”: The Transformative Power of the Global Education Industry

    • S. Karin Amos

    Pages 225-249

13. Writing Global Education Policy Research

    • Stephen Carney

    Pages 251-272

14. Conclusion: Changing Education in the GEI—Rationales, Logics, and Modes of Operation

    • Marcelo Parreira do Amaral, Christiane Thompson

    Pages 273-290

15. Back Matter

    Pages 291-295

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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.

• Global Education Industry
• Commodification of education
• Education investment
• pro-market educational reforms
• education policy

• Institute of Education, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

  Marcelo Parreira do Amaral

• Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

  Gita Steiner-Khamsi

• Theory and History of Education, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

  Christiane Thompson

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.

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