Cross Roads, Intersections, Departure Points: Locating Public and Private Projects in New Education Governance Partnerships

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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

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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?

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Education A Complex Social, Cultural and
Political

• Education is a unique and complex activity
• A fundamental human right
• Shapes trajectories, locations, outcomes
• Part of the social contract
• Changes in governance of the sector require
  strong questions and strong answers

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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

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Partnerships - A Discourse for all Seasons

• Exit privatisation enter partnership talk
• Shifts in dominant ideology
• The problem of trust and transaction costs in
  contracting
• The good governance and global turns
• Three partnership examples the World Bank, IFC
  and UNESCO

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Underlying Logics as a Meta-Language for Multiple
Grammars

• Partnerships - a semantic umbrella
• Issues of power and interest
• Underlying logics to reveal meta-language from
  management reforms to mimic the market to
  cooperation and learning

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Who gets what?

• The need for a normative framework
• The need for an informed middle ground
• Beyond efficiencies to equity
• Public and private intersections that make a
  social difference!

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Thankyou s.l.robertson_at_bristol.ac.uk