Methods of concealed privatization: Mapping Edu-business, Policy Networks and Neoliberal Metrics
There is important research on the topic of privatization of the education sector. Specifically, processes which can be described as concealed privatization and neoliberalization by proxy can be unveiled. Two research articles map out how evolving forms of privatization and neoliberal ideological power finds new arenas within education, to control and commodify. The first article studies the influence of private actors on the education of teachers in Sweden, by analyzing education policy mobility. (Player-Koro, Beach, 2017) Privatization of state education, where education and education policy are targeted by educational (edu)-businesses and sold as “market solutions” (Ball, 2009), is explored in this article. Here, privatization is not understood as carried out by removing services out of state sector control but is instead conducted through a different kind of private collaboration with the public sector, selling solutions to specific problems or through sell...