Privatization in and of Public Education

Antonina Santalova is Academic Dean, Glion Institute of Higher Education and Associate Member, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford.Kaire Põder is Professor of Economics at Estonian Business School and a member of the Expert Group of Quality Investments in Education and Training, European Commission.

• Foreword by Stephen Ball Introduction by A. Santalova & K. Põder Section 1. Overview: Educational Diversification and Public Preferences Chapter 1: Is the Common School Dead? Dilemmas of Plural Public SpacesBruce Fuller Chapter 2: The Moral Economy of Diversity in Educational Options in Four European 'Choice' CountriesTriin Lauri, Kaire Põder Section 2. Privatization of Education: Exogenous Forms Chapter 3: Measuring the Efficiency of Private Schools: Conceptual Issues and Empirical EvidenceTommaso Agasisti and Simona Ferraro Chapter 4: Privatisation by Default: The Global Expansion and Implications of Private Supplementary TutoringWei Zhang & Mark Bray Chapter 5: The Growth of Private Schools in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: Drivers and ImplicationsSusan M. Kippels Chapter 6: Shared and Contested Views of Education Professionals on the Forms of Privatisation within Comprehensive Schooling in Finland Nina Nivanahoa Mikko Haavistob, Tuire Palonenb, Sonia Lempinena, Piia Seppänena Chapter 7: Privatization in Children's Extracurricular Education Sector: the Case of Russia and the Post-Soviet ContextSergey Kosaretsky, Ivan Y. Ivanov Section 3. Privatization in Education: Endogenous Forms Chapter 8: School Financing and Equal Educational Opportunity: A Review of Policy InterventionsKristof De Witte, Mike Smet and Ruben Van Assche Chapter 9: State Advances, Min Retreats: Recentralisation of Minban Education in ChinaRaymond K.H. Chan, Ying Wang Chapter 10: School Autonomy as a Form of Privatization in Public Schooling in Post-Soviet Republics of Central Asia--Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and UzbekistanAntonina Santalova Chapter 11: Where the Public was Always Private: Going Beyond Privatization in/of/through Education and Policymaking in Post-colonial ContextsMauro C. Moschetti, D. Brent Edwards Jr., & Alejandro Caravaca Chapter 12: COVID-19 and the Commercialization of Finnish Schooling: a National 'Digileap' and a Global Re-imagining of Digitalized Public SchoolingIida Kiesi and Anna Hogan Section 4. Conclusion: Patterns and Policies Chapter 13: Patterns of Privatization in/of EducationAntonina Santalova Chapter 14: Policies: The Way Forward for PrivatizationKaire Põder

Privatization in and of Public Education reflects the complexities of current global transformations in the provision, regulation, and funding of public education. The book shows how 'the private' is progressively embedded in forms of education within and outside education systems and in different territories. One of the great contributions of the book is the inclusion of forms of privatization in non-Western states, such as China, Russia, former soviet republics, or postcolonial states. Their inclusion proves that the scope and extent of privatization is becoming really global, and the need as social scientists to understand its implications for equity and social justice.