Privatisation and Commercialisation in Public Education: How the Public Nature of Schooling is Changing

Privatisation and Commercialisation in Public Education asks how publicness is being redefined through the restructuring of nominally public school systems. Over the past few decades, governments have engineered a wave of reforms in their public systems opening them to privatisation and commercialisation. In public education systems competition, choice and autonomy have become entrenched vectors of these reforms.

This edited collection carefully examines the difference between privatisation ...