Disrupting Education Policy: How New Philanthropy Works to Change Education

ISBN-13: 9781787076884 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 222 str.

Marina Avelar

Opis

With support of network ethnography and concepts from Political Science and Human Geography, the author invites the readers to challenge preconceived ideas of how governments and philanthropies work, and peak inside philanthropies' efforts to reform education.

Spis treści

List of tables - List of figures - Acknowledgements - Stephen J. Ball: Foreword - Preface - Introduction - New philanthropy and the global education reform - From government to governance: changing relations in society and how to study them - Working to shape narratives and frame education policy ideas - Working to collaborate in and through networks - Working to change structures and institutionalise a reform agenda - New philanthropy, education policy networks and issues for a democratic education - Bibliography.

O autorze

Marina Avelar, PhD, has completed her doctoral studies at University College London - Institute of Education, UK, and her thesis was the winner of the 2016 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in Education Studies. Her research is focused on the engagement of private actors, especially new philanthropy, in education policymaking, governance and global policy networks. Prior to the PhD, she completed her bachelor's and master's degrees in education at the State University of Campinas, Brazil, with visiting periods at Lund University, Sweden; UCL Institute of Education, UK; and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.