Global Business of Education

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Approaches, Issues and Critical Directions

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvMarcelo Parreira do Amaral,Sieglinde Jornitz,S. Karin Amos

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This open access book addresses issues related to viewing education as a business endeavor. It introduces the readers to central conceptual issues and relates them to the pedagogical, educational and social issues at various levels and sectors of education. The book offers paradigmatic approaches and theories used to model and examine education as a business endeavor. Business of Education is a global phenomenon that has experienced an exponential growth during the past decades; it goes well beyond the influence of private interests in shaping policymaking or the expansion of private schooling and encompasses policy, practice, and research in the field of education.The work includes both classical positions and newer viewpoints challenging mainstream debates to approach the diverse manifestations of the business of education and the varying responses across the globe. The volume assesses the impact of business activities at various levels/sectors of education – lifelong learning, vocational education, supplementary education, higher education, teacher education and focuses on different issues and challenges, from financing to sustainability, from geopolitics to reform and on different geographical areas, such as Australia, Brazil, Chile, and Germany. The analyses draw on different frameworks – philanthropy, racial capitalism, transhumanism, neoliberalism – and go well beyond a materialist perspective of the topic at hand to include other important dimensions since controversies abound as to the impact and/or side-effects of these developments beyond their purely economic import. The book also critically discusses the future of the field by showcasing research that deliberate on different directions and that reflect on possible futures for (the business of) education. The research presented has strong global perspective and integrates in-depth conceptual analyses with real-world examples and case studies that aim at contributing to a more comprehensive understanding of the business of education across different contexts and regions.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-07-10
Mått155 x 235 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783032255631

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Dr. Marcelo Parreira do Amaral is Professor of International and Comparative Education at the University of Muenster, Germany, and Visiting Professor at the University of Turku, Finland. His main research interests include international and comparative education, in particular the role and activities of International Organizations and economic forces on education policy and governance and its implications for education research, practice and policy. Together with Gita Steiner-Khamsi and Christiane Thompson he is editor of the volume ‘Researching the Global Education Industry’ (2019).Dr. Sieglinde Jornitz is senior researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. She combines her overall research interest in international education policies and teacher education with the qualitative analysis of documents from educational practice. Together with Marcelo Parreira do Amaral she is editor-in-chief of the Handbook on The Education Systems of the Americas (2020).Dr. S. Karin Amos is Professor of Education at University of Tübingen, Germany, with a special focus on international and comparative education as well as intercultural pedagogy. Her research interests include international governance in education, the relation between the concepts governance and governmentality as well as the question of the relation between political and pedagogical formations.

Introduction: The Business of Education.- Chapter 1. Conceptualizing the Business of Education – Key Approaches and Debates - Marcelo Parreira do Amaral, S. Karin Amos & Sieglinde Jornitz.- Part I: Theories and Paradigms-Marcelo Parreira do Amaral.- Chapter 2. Global Education Industry: emerging trends and markets - Antoni Verger.- Chapter 3. Economy and ‘Economisms’ in Education - Volker Bank.- Chapter 4. Neoliberalism and Education - Andreas Gkolfinopoulos & Marcelo Parreira do Amaral.- Chapter 5. The Public and the Private in Education: state subsidies to private schools as election trap for political parties - Bernard Brown & Rita Nikolai.- Chapter 6. Gross Education Product. Political Arithmetic in the Education System - Frank-Olaf Radkte.- Chapter 7. Economics of Education - Sieglinde Jornitz.- Chapter 8. Reframing Education as Human Capital - Silja Graupe.- Part II – Educational Issues and Challenges- Sieglinde Jornitz.- Chapter 9. Financialization of mandatory education and the radicalisation of its privatisation: a study from Brazil - Theresa Adrião & José Quibao Neto.- Chapter 10. Underfinancing as Economization - Ansgar Klinger.- Chapter 11. Contradictions of the Neoliberal Reform of Peruvian Education - Luis Martín Valdiviezo Arista, Yizza Maria Delgado-Devita & Jonathan Eduardo Alvarado Ramos.- Chapter 12. Educational problems and challenges of Chilean schools under the new visions of business development - Sebastián Donoso Díaz.- Chapter 13. Philanthrocapitalism and Education - Emma E. Rowe.- Chapter 14. Google Education - Hanna Carlsson & Fredrik Hanell.- Chapter 15. The Business of Education Assessment: Making markets and more than profit - Camilla Addey.- Chapter 16. Caribbean, Racial Capitalism and Education - tavis jules & Hannah Katherine D'Apice.- Chapter 17. Private actors in Teacher Education - Paul R. Fossum and Benedict Kurz.- Chapter 18. Anomies and Anomalies of Lifelong Learning - Ulpukka Isopahkala-Bouret.- Chapter 19. Vocational Education as Export - Matthias Pilz and Susanne Peters.- Chapter 20. Entrepreneurs in the Shadow Education Sector: Local, National and International Dynamics in the Provision of Private Supplementary Tutoring - Mark Bray and Wei Zhang. Chapter 21. Private Interests and Educational Inflation - Tiago Neves & Gil Nata.- Part III – Critical Directions in the Study of the Business of Education - S. Karin Amos.- Chapter 22. Transhumanist dreams of liberation and bleak realities of incarceration: Trajectories of Ed Business - S. Karin Amos.- Chapter 23. Education as Business and Business of Education - Jae Park & Tamara Savelyeva.- Chapter 24. The Geopolitics of Business and Education - Sami Moisio.- Chapter 25. Whole sustainability and the Business in Education. Sustaining the tensions - Dell Delambre.- Chapter 26. People Farming in Academia – Tracking, Surveillance & Control in Higher Education - Renke Siems.- Chapter 27. Academic Entrepreneurs in Higher Education – New Demands, Old Manners? - Jozef Zelinka & Sebastiano Benasso.