Contesting PLD services: the case of CORE Education
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2017-10-30
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Routledge
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The article is derived from a larger study of charities, philanthropists,
policy entrepreneurs and international businesses in state schooling
in Aotearoa New Zealand. The article considers the formation of a
private professional services provider, CORE Education, and its
recent corporate trajectory following the government’s decision in
2009 to make all School Support Services provision contestable by
private providers. CORE Education is an interesting case of
schooling privatization because the organizational structure
comprises both a not-for-profit charitable educational trust and a
wholly owned, for-profit business. CORE’s activities also illustrate
the new network governance modality in schooling. In this
modality, both bureaucratic and market forms of schooling
services delivery are being displaced by fluid networks of
domestic and offshore policy actors who seek strategic and
tactical alliances in order to advance their voice and agency in
schooling services policy development, delivery and evaluation.
The article adopts a critical policy scholarship approach drawing
on theories of social network analysis and network policy
governance. The article claims that network alliances serve to blur
the distinctions between for-profit and not-for-profit activity,
between state, NGO and philanthropic actors and, ultimately,
between what counts as private and what counts as public in
state schooling.
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Open Review of Educational Research, 2017, 4 (1), pp. 192 - 204