cross roads, intersections, departure points: locating public and private projects in new education...
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Cross Roads, Intersections, Departure Points: Locating Public and Private Projects
in New Education Governance Partnerships
Susan Robertson, University of Bristol, UK
Keynote Address to the GCES
Intersections of the Public and Private in the GCC, 16th March, 2011
Outline
Introduction Education – A Complex Social, Cultural and
Political ‘Cross Roads’ in Education –Mandates,
Governance, Distinction Partnerships - A Discourse for all Seasons Underlying Logics as a Meta-Language Who gets what in the education-society
contract?
Education – A Complex Social, Cultural and Political
Education is a unique and complex activity
A fundamental human rightShapes trajectories, locations, outcomesPart of the social contractChanges in governance of the sector
require strong questions and strong answers
‘Cross Roads’ in Education – Mandates, Governance, Distinction
Mandates for education – creating knowledge economies, services sectors and access for all
New governance challenges – the retreat of the state?
New forms of ‘distinction’
Partnerships - A Discourse for all Seasons
Exit ‘privatisation; enter ‘partnership’ talkShifts in dominant ideologyThe problem of trust and transaction
costs in ‘contracting’ The ‘good governance’ and global turnsThree partnership examples – the World
Bank, IFC and UNESCO
Underlying Logics as a Meta-Language for Multiple Grammars
Partnerships - a semantic umbrellaIssues of power and interestUnderlying logics to reveal meta-
language – from ‘management reforms’ to mimic the market to ‘cooperation and learning’
Who gets what?
The need for a normative frameworkThe need for an informed ‘middle
ground’ Beyond efficiencies to equity Public and private intersections that
make a social difference!
