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Book SynopsisThis insightful book brings together both academics and researchers from a variety of international organizations and aid agencies to explore the complexities of public private partnerships as a resurgent, hybrid mode of educational governance that operates across scales, from the community to the global.
Trade Review'Far from simply being a form of cost sharing between the ''state'' and the ''market,'' PPP has been celebrated by some, and condemned by others, as the champion of change in the new millennium. This book has been written by the best minds in education policy, political economy, and development studies. They convincingly argue that public private partnership represents a new mode of governance that ranges from covert support of the private sector (vouchers, subsidies) to overt collaboration with corporate actors in the rapidly growing education industry. The analyses are simply brilliant and indispensable for understanding how and why this particular best/worst practice went global.' --Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Columbia University, New York, US
Table of ContentsContents: 1. An Introduction to Public Private Partnerships and Education Governance Susan L. Robertson, Karen Mundy, Antoni Verger and Francine Menashy PART I: THE RISE OF PPPs IN EDUCATION: HISTORY AND CONCEPTUAL DEBATES 2. Governing Education through Public Private Partnerships Susan L. Robertson and Antoni Verger 3. International PPPs in Education: New Potential or Privatizing Public Goods? Alexandra Draxler 4. Public Private Partnerships, Neoliberal Globalization and Democratization Mark Ginsburg PART II: UNDERSTANDING TRANSNATIONAL PPP ACTORS 5. The Role of the International Finance Corporation in the Promotion of Public Private Partnerships for Educational Development Karen Mundy and Francine Menashy 6. The GATS Game-changer: International Trade Regulation and the Constitution of a Global Education Marketplace Antoni Verger and Susan L. Robertson 7. Private Foundations, Philanthropy and Partnership in Education and Development: Mapping the Terrain Prachi Srivastava and Su-Ann Oh 8. A Disconnect between Motivations and Education Needs: Why American Corporate Philanthropy Alone Will Not Educate the Most Marginalized Justin van Fleet 9. Microsoft Corporation: A Case Study of Corporate-led PPPs in Education Zahra Bhanji PART III: THE IMPACT OF PPPs IN EDUCATION: EVIDENCE FROM THE FIELD 10. The Role and Impact of Public Private Partnerships in Education Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Juliana Guaqueta and Harry Anthony Patrinos 11. Do Public Private Partnerships Fulfil the Right to Education? An Examination of the Role of Non-state Actors in Advancing Equity, Equality and Justice Maria Ron-Balsera and Akanksha A. Marphatia 12. Is Low-fee Private Primary Schooling Affordable for the Poor? Evidence from Rural India Joanna Härmä and Pauline Rose 13. Why Girls’ Education Rather than Gender Equality? The Strange Political Economy of PPPs in Pakistan Shailaja Fennell 14. The Role of Central Management Structures in Public Private Partnerships: The Case of Fe y Alegría Schools in Peru Analía V. Jaimovich Index
