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date: 13 February 2025

Commercialization in Educationlocked

Commercialization in Educationlocked

  • Anna HoganAnna HoganThe University of Queensland
  • , and Greg ThompsonGreg ThompsonQueensland University of Technology

Summary

In the literature, a range of terminology is used to describe the reorganization of public education. In much critical policy sociology the terms marketization, privatization, and commercialization are used interchangeably. Our argument is that each of these denotes distinct, albeit related, characteristics of contemporary schooling and the impact of the Global Education Industry (GEI). We define marketization as the series of policy logics that aim to create quasimarkets in education; privatization as the development of quasimarkets in education that privilege parental choice, school autonomy and venture philanthropy; and commercialization as the creation, marketing, and sale of educational goods and services to schools by external providers. We explain the manifestations of each of these forms and offer two cases of actors situated within the GEI, the OECD, and Pearson PLC, to outline how commercialization and privatization proceed at the level of policy and practice.

Subjects

  • Educational Purposes and Ideals
  • Globalization, Economics, and Education
  • Technology and Education

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