65.039 - Understanding Education Privatization and Marketization in Canada, Iceland, Switzerland, and the United States

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This panel aims to generate a globally-connected understanding of educational reforms that give rise to new market forms, elements and actors around the world. To achieve this, we will first explore and compare the global phenomena of education marketization and privatization in four major urban centers: Detroit, Reykjavík, Vancouver and Zurich. We will then offer a diverse set of conceptual approaches to analyzing how private companies, donors and investors have become major factors in how schools are organized and regulated in different countries. This panel will provide a timely opportunity to compare four cities within the context of their respective countries, and in so doing, will broaden our understanding of how market actors and ‘invisible hands’ might be linked globally.

Sub Unit

• Division L - Educational Policies and Politics / Division L - Section 4: School Choice and Other School and District Reform

Chair

• Christopher A. Lubienski, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Papers

• Austerity Education: Making Schooling Markets in Detroit - Dan Cohen, University of British Columbia

• The Financial Collapse in Iceland as a Driving Force for Comprehensive Endogenous Privatization in Reykjavík: Discourse Analysis of Recent Policy Documents - Berglind Rós Magnúsdóttir, University of Akureyri; Kristín Dýrfjörð, University of Akureyri

• Privatization in Practice: A Case Study of a Large Urban School District - Dwayne Cover, University of British Columbia

• Privatization in Public Education in Zurich: A Story of Absence - Bettina Diethelm Werder, Zurich University of Teacher Education