Influencing education policy: new philanthropy, network governance and fast-policy

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Acknowledgement

I am deeply thankful to Professor Bob Lingard for his guidance and suggestions in writing this Review Essay.

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Rino Wiseman Adhikary recently completed his doctoral studies at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. His area of research is policy and governance in education. His articles have appeared in journals such as the Journal of Education Policy, Comparative Education, Policy Futures in Education and KEDI Journal of Education Policy.

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Rino Wiseman Adhikary http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9676-6515

Notes

1. An advanced liberal economy associated with the dominant processes of globalization. It is also home to some of the world’s richest entrepreneurs’ philanthropic foundations that have significant global influence and transnational impact on education systems across jurisdictions.

2. These are central tenets of New Public Management (see Rhodes, 1997, pp. 48–49).

3. This comes gradually, replacing the older field-oriented model, which involves working with grassroots communities and organizations to democratically originate and develop solutions to social problems.

4. A derivative from ‘glocalization’, which denotes the hybridising ways local, national and global interrelationships are being reformulated within the mediational context of national culture and politics.

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Funding

This research received support through an ‘Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship’ provided by the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.