Researching the Global Education Industry Commodification, the Market and Business Involvement /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Parreira do Amaral, Marcelo (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Steiner-Khamsi, Gita (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Thompson, Christiane (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Educational policy.; Education and state.; International education .; Comparative education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; International and Comparative Education.

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,...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Researching the Global Education Industry
• 2. Serial Entrepreneurs, Angel Investors, and Capex Light Edu-Business Start-Ups in India: Philanthropy, Impact Investing, and Systemic Educational Change
• 3. The Political Turn of Corporate Influence in Education: A Synthesis of Main Policy Reform Strategies
• 4. Advocacy Networks and Market Models for Education
• 5. UNESCO, Education, and the Private Sector: A Relationship on Whose Terms?
• 6. Embedding Education Research in the European Economic Imaginary?
• 7. The Global Education Industry, Data Infrastructures, and the Restructuring of Government School Systems
• 8. The Transformation of State Monitoring Systems in Germany and the US: Relating the Datafication and Digitalization of Education to the Global Education Industry
• 9. International Education Hubs as Competitive Advantage: Investigating the Role of the State as Power Connector in the Global Education Industry
• 10. The Globalized Expert: On the Dissemination and Authorization of Evidence-Based Education
• 11. Digitization, Disruption, and the "Society of Singularities": The Transformative Power of the Global Education Industry
• 12. Writing Global Education Policy Research
• 13. Conclusion: Changing Education in the GEI-Rationales, Logics, and Modes of Operation.