Global Education Inc.: New Policy Networks and the Neoliberal Imaginary

© 2012 S. Ball. Do private and philanthropic solutions to the problems of education signal the end of state education in its ‘welfare’ form?Education policy is being reformed and re-worked on a global scale. Policies are flowing and converging to produce a singular vision of ‘best practice’ based on the methods and tenets of the ‘neo-liberal imaginary’. Philanthropy, business and the governments are coming together in new networks and sites of policy outside of the framework of the nation state. This book is a first step in recording, mapping and making sense of the most important aspects of these new relations and dynamics of policy.Global Education Inc. is a crucial book that will be of great interest to…