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Helena Hinke Dobrochinski Candido; Piia Seppänen; Martin Thrupp – European Educational Research Journal, 2024
The trend towards seeing education as a commodity and part of a global industry has transformed the field of education. We argue that these transformations are reducing the autonomy of the field of education as it has incorporated business rhetoric, logic and practice. We examine this through an analysis of discursive formations manifested in two…
Descriptors: Business, School Business Relationship, Foreign Countries, Experience
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Säfström, Carl Anders; Månsson, Niclas – European Educational Research Journal, 2022
This article deals with the question of what has happened to 'the public' in the Swedish education system during the last three decades. In our search for an answer we illuminate and discuss how the process of marketisation, together with the learnification and individualisation of education, replaced 'the public' from public education with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Commercialization, Democracy, Educational Practices
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Margareta Serder – European Educational Research Journal, 2024
The aim of this study is to examine how a particular object for consumption, professional development for teachers and principals, is marketed to schools, and what propositions and understandings are embedded in such offers. Adopting a conceptualization of marketing as a "perpetual questioning machine," the study deploys and develops a…
Descriptors: Student Recruitment, Commercialization, Knowledge Economy, Professional Development
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Lietzén, Outi – European Educational Research Journal, 2023
This article explores the positioning of dual qualifications (DQs) in the Finnish education policy and the education system since the late 1980s. The analysis is carried out in the context of academic-vocational divide. At the end of the 1980s, Finland questioned the functionality of the strict academic-vocational divide in post-compulsory…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Academic Education, Vocational Education, Educational Policy
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Ideland, Malin; Jobér, Anna; Axelsson, Thom – European Educational Research Journal, 2021
This article explores how a growing apparatus of edupreneurial actors offers solutions for the current 'school crisis' and how these commercial actors become taken for granted in the public school system. The Swedish case is interesting, as it involves a once-strong welfare state that is now associated with both the neoliberal discourse of…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Entrepreneurship, Neoliberalism, Competition
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Alves, Mariana Gaio; Tomlinson, Michael – European Educational Research Journal, 2021
This article examines how the value of higher education (HE) is currently being (re)framed in two European countries: England and Portugal. HE has been central to a global discourse on the future of knowledge economy, whilst also being subject to the policy framework of New Public Management. Being so, the changing value of HE is related to the…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Higher Education, Educational Policy