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Private Sector Engagement in Education Worldwide: Conceptual and Critical Challenges

Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2013

ISBN: 978-1-78190-694-1, eISBN: 978-1-78190-695-8

Publication date: 9 August 2014

Abstract

This chapter attempts to untangle the complex arena of private sector engagement in education by discussing the definitional challenges associated with understanding the non-state sector and by introducing some conceptual frameworks employed in research on private education. A thematic review of research from the field of Comparative International Education is provided to give the reader an understanding of the diversity that characterizes private involvement as well as the interconnectedness of private actors, specifically drawing attention to findings that grapple with equity implications. The chapter concludes with some suggestions for developing a framework for research via posing questions that ought to be asked when designing, conducting and analyzing findings from studies into private sector engagement in education.

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Menashy, F. (2014), "Private Sector Engagement in Education Worldwide: Conceptual and Critical Challenges", Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2013 (International Perspectives on Education and Society, Vol. 20), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 137-165. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-3679(2013)0000020016

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