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Privatisation, School Markets and Socioeconomic Segregation: An International Overview
Several educational systems have introduced market-oriented reforms in the last two decades. Recent research has suggested that these schemes may...
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Socioeconomic and attitudinal differences between service users of private and public early childhood education and care in the Finnish context
The marketisation and privatisation of welfare services such as early childhood education and care (ECEC) have been a global trend in recent decades....
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New perspectives on curriculum and democracy: conceptual and empirical tools for democratic curriculum
There is an increasingly complex array of global crises facing young people in contemporary societies, including climate change and ecological...
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The COVID-19 pandemic, the Sustainable Development Goals on health and education and “least developed countries” such as Nepal
In 2015, the United Nations (UN) declared 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets to be achieved by 2030, but the COVID-19 pandemic...
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Contextual effects on students’ achievement and academic self-concept in the Nordic and Chinese educational systems
BackgroundThe current study investigates school contextual effects on students’ academic self-concept and achievement, that is, peer socioeconomic...
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Private Actors in New Zealand Schooling: Towards an Account of Enablers and Constraints Since the 1980s
This article seeks to describe a range of enablers of, and constraints on, private actors in New Zealand schooling, using scholarly, polity and mass...
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Gig qualifications for the gig economy: micro-credentials and the ‘hungry mile’
This paper argues that micro-credentials are gig credentials for the gig economy. Micro-credentials are short competency-based industry-aligned units...
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Everyday Disasters in Everyday Lives—Rethinking SDG 11.5 in Times of Multiple Crises
The COVID-19 pandemic has illustrated the urgent need to take SDG 11.5 into account—to reduce the number of people affected by disasters. Moreover,...
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Poland
This chapter focuses on the evolution of Poland’s Adult Learning Systems (ALS) from the 1990s post-communist period to the 2010s, highlighting a...
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Critical Engagement and Commitment to the Field of Educational Leadership
This chapter recognises and responds to Professor Helen M. Gunter’s work on theorising critical educational leadership and her analysis of the...
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The Dynamics of Globalisation and Internationalisation Processes Sha** the Policies for African Higher Education
Higher education in general has historically been the domain of national policy processes with minimal influences from regional and global processes....
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Financialisation of schooling in Australia through private debt: a case study of Edstart
In Australia, a range of financial services, including education bonds, high interest personal loans and credit card debt, have long been used to...
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Ghanaian private higher education providers: are they becoming endangered species?
In Ghana, private higher education institutions’ (PHEIs) share of gross tertiary enrolment is on the decline in the midst of growing demand for...
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Neoliberalism Sha** English Language Teaching in Bangladesh: A Critical Examination
This chapter provides a nuanced analysis of how neoliberalism has come to shape the English Language Teaching (ELT) policy field in Bangladesh....
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Shift to Market Orientation? The Changing Trend of the Higher Education Sector in India
This chapter discusses attempts to unpack massification, privatisation, internationalisation, and financing in the context of Indian higher...
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Empowering Teachers and Democratising Schooling Perspectives from Australia
This edited book brings together teachers and education academics who are committed to education about, for and through democracy. It presents a...
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Comparing Governance and Choice of Upper Secondary School in the Nordic Countries
In this concluding chapter, we compare and sum up the findings from the respective country studies and contributions to the edited volume. Across the...
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Geographies of School Quantification
The emergence of test-based accountability as a dominant form of monitoring and control of educational services in the Global North is not an...
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Commentary on Chapters 15 and 16
Writing from vastly different political, cultural and policy contexts, Malcolm (Chap. 15 ) and Palkhiwala...