Publication Cover
Contemporary Social Science
Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences
Volume 17, 2022 - Issue 5
3,247
Views
1
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Relocating the political in education: why we need to revisit the marketisation of education in the contemporary political climate

ORCID Icon
Pages 485-500 | Received 27 Jun 2022, Accepted 10 Nov 2022, Published online: 21 Nov 2022

References

  • Ahmad, I., Rehman, K., Ali, A., Khan, I., & Khan, F. (2014). Critical analysis of the problems of education in Pakistan: Possible solutions. International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education (IJERE)), 3, 79–84. doi:10.11591/ijere.v3i2.1805
  • Aiyar, Y., Dongre, A., & Davis, V. (2015). Education reforms, bureaucracy and the puzzles of implementation: A case study from Bihar. SSRN Electronic Journal, 1–55. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2695991
  • Allen, R. (2007). Allocating pupils to their nearest secondary school: The consequences for social and ability stratification. Urban Studies, 44(4), 751–770. doi:10.1080/00420980601184737
  • Allen, R., & Burgess, S. (2020). The future of competition and accountability in education. http://www.2020publicservicestrust.org/downloads/9_The_Future_of_Competition_and_Accountability_in%20Education.pdf
  • Alves, F., Elacqua, G., Koslinki, M., Martinez, M., Santos, H., & Urbina, D. (2015). Winners and losers of school choice: Evidence from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Santiago, Chile. International Journal of Educational Development, 41, 25–34. doi:10.1016/j.ijedudev.2014.12.004
  • ASER Centre. (2018). Assessment Survey Evaluation Research (India). https://img.asercentre.org/docs/ASER%202018/Release%20Material/aserreport2018.pdf
  • Ball, S. J., Bowe, R., & Gewirtz, S. (1996). School choice, social class and distinction: The realization of social advantage in education. Journal of Education Policy, 11(1), 89–112. doi:10.1080/0268093960110105
  • Bartlett, J. (2018). The people vs tech: How the internet is killing democracy (and how we save it). London: Ebury Press.
  • Besley, T., & Burgess, R. (2002). The political economy of government responsiveness: Theory and evidence from India. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 117(4), 1415–1451. doi:10.1162/003355302320935061
  • Björkman, M., & Svensson, J. (2009). Power to the people: Evidence from a randomized field experiment on community-based monitoring in Uganda. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 124(2), 735–769. doi:10.1162/qjec.2009.124.2.735
  • Bruns, B., Filmer, D., & Patrinos, H. A. (2011). Making schools work: New evidence on accountability reforms. Human development perspectives. World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/2270
  • Bruns, B., & Luque, J. (2018). Great teachers: How to raise student learning in Latin America and the Caribbean.
  • Bruns, B., & Schneider, B. R. (2016). Managing the politics of quality reforms in education policy: Lessons from global experience. The Learning Generation Background Paper, The Education Commission.
  • Burgess, S., Propper, C., Slater, H., & Wilson, D. (2005). Who wins and who loses from school accountability? The distribution of educational gain in English secondary schools. London: The Centre for Market and Public Organisation, University of Bristol, UK. https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bri:cmpowp:05/128
  • Caddell, M. (2007). Education and change: A historical perspective on schooling, development and the Nepali Nation-State.
  • Certeau, M. d. (2013). The practice of everyday life. 1 (2. Print). Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Chakrabarti, S. (2018). Duty, identity, credibility: Fake news and the ordinary citizen in India. BBC. http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/duty-identity-credibility.pdf
  • Chattopadhyay, S. (2009). The market in higher education: Concern for equity and quality. Economic and Political Weekly, 44(29), 53–61.
  • Chattopadhyay, S. (2012). Education and economics: Disciplinary evolution and policy discourse. Delhi: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198082255.001.0001
  • Chitty, C. (1997). Privatisation and marketisation. Oxford Review of Education, 23(1), 45–62. doi:10.1080/0305498970230105
  • Chubb, J. E., & Moe, T. M. (1990). America’s public schools: Choice is a panacea. The Brookings Review, 8(3), 4–12 . doi:10.2307/20080159
  • Corbridge, S, Williams, G, Srivastava, M., & Véron, R. (2005). Seeing the State: Governance and Governmentality in India (Contemporary South Asia). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511492211
  • Davies, M., & Niemann, M. (2002). The everyday spaces of global politics: Work, leisure, family. New Political Science, 24(4), 557–577. doi:10.1080/0739314022000025390
  • Denice, P., & Gross, B. (2016). Choice, preferences, and constraints. Sociology of Education, 89(4), 300–320. doi:10.1177/0038040716664395
  • Dumay, X., & Dupriez, V. (2014). Educational quasi-markets, school effectiveness and social inequalities. Journal of Education Policy, 29(4), 510–531. doi:10.1080/02680939.2013.850536
  • Dunne, M., Great Britain, & Department for Children, S. and F. (2007). Effective teaching and learning for pupils in low attaining groups.
  • Fiske, E. B., & Ladd, H. F. (2000). When schools compete a cautionary tale. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.
  • Fox, J. A. (2015). Social accountability: What does the evidence really Say? World Development, 72, 346–361. doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.03.011
  • Friedman, M. (1962). Capitalism and freedom. Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press.
  • Gerbaudo, P. (2015). Tweets and the streets: Social media and contemporary activism. London: Pluto Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctt183pdzs
  • Gledhill, J. (2000). From macro-structure to microprocess. In J. Gledhill (Ed.), Power and its disguises (2nd ed., pp. 127–152). London: Pluto Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctt18fs65g.9
  • Grindle, M. S. (2004). Despite the odds. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv36zq8d
  • Guillaume, X., & Huysmans, J. (2019). The concept of ‘the everyday’: Ephemeral politics and the abundance of life. Cooperation and Conflict, 54(2), 278–296. doi:10.1177/0010836718815520
  • Hansen, T. B. (1999). The saffron wave: Democracy and Hindu nationalism in modern India. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/londonschoolecons/detail.action?docID = 537679
  • Hastings, J. S., & Weinstein, J. M. (2008). Information, school choice, and academic achievement: Evidence from Two experiments*. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 123(4), 1373–1414. doi:10.1162/qjec.2008.123.4.1373
  • Henriot-Van Zanten, A. (2016). Choisir son école: Stratégies familiales et médiations locales. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
  • Hill, E., Samson, M., & Dasgupta, S. (2011). Expanding the school market in India: Parental choice and the reproduction of social inequality. Economic and Political Weekly, 46(35), 98–105.
  • Hobson, J. M., & Seabrooke, L. (2001). Everyday politics of the world economy (1st ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511491375
  • Hossain, N., & Hickey, S. (2019). The problem of education quality in developing countries. In N. Hossain & S. Hickey (Eds.), The politics of education in developing countries (pp. 1–21). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198835684.003.0001
  • Hughes, D. (1999). Trading in futures: Why markets in education don’t work. Buckingham; Philadelphia: Open University Press.
  • Jayawardena, C. (1987). Analysis of a social situation in acheh besar: An exploration in micro-history. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Social and Cultural Practice, 22, 30–46.
  • Joshi, A., & Tapasvi, S. K. (2015). Issues and challenges in ensuring public accountability: The Indian Context (November 21, 2015). doi:10.2139/ssrn.2693906
  • Karsten, S., Ledoux, G., Roeleveld, J., Felix, C., & Elshof, D. (2003). School choice and ethnic segregation. Educational Policy, 17, 452–477. doi:10.1177/0895904803254963
  • Kingdon, G. G. (2007). The progress of school education in India. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 23(2), 168–195. doi:10.1093/oxrep/grm015
  • Kingdon, G. G., & Muzammil, M. (2003). The political economy of education in India: Teacher politics in Uttar Pradesh. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Kosack, S., & Fung, A. (2014). Does transparency improve governance? Annual Review of Political Science, 17(1), 65–87. doi:10.1146/annurev-polisci-032210-144356
  • Ladd, H. F., & Fiske, E. B. (2001). The uneven playing field of school choice: Evidence from New Zealand. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 20(1), 43–64. doi:10.1002/1520-6688(200124)20:1<43::AID-PAM1003>3.0.CO;2-4
  • Lateef, S. K. (2016). Evolution of the World Bank’s thinking on governance. World Development Report Background Paper. World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/26197 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.’
  • Lefebvre, H. (1991). Critique of everyday life. Verso.
  • Le Grand, J., & Bartlett, W. (1993). Quasi-Markets and social policy. London: Macmillan Education, Limited. https://public.ebookcentral.proquest.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p = 5647040
  • Leidig, E. (2020). Hindutva as a variant of right-wing extremism. Patterns of Prejudice, 54(3), 215–237. doi:10.1080/0031322X.2020.1759861
  • Little, A. (2010). Access to elementary education in India politics, policies and progress. CREATE pathways to access. Research monograph No. 44. University of Sussex, Falmer: ERIC Clearinghouse.
  • Majumdar, M., & Mooij, J. E. (2015). Education and inequality in India: A classroom view.
  • Mani, A., & Mukand, S. (2007). Democracy, visibility and public good provision. Journal of Development Economics, 83(2), 506–529. doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2005.06.008
  • Marginson, S. (1997). Markets in education. St. Leonards, N.S.W: Allen & Unwin.
  • Mbiti, I. M. (2016). The need for accountability in education in developing countries. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 30(3), 109–132. doi:10.1257/jep.30.3.109
  • Mitchell, T. (2006). Society, economy and the state effect. In A. Sharma, A. Gupta, , & ProQuest (Firm) (Eds.), The anthropology of the state: A reader, vol. 9 (pp. 169–186). Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/londonschoolecons/detail.action?docID = 255317
  • Mizala, A., & Urquiola, M. (2013). School markets: The impact of information approximating schools’ effectiveness. Journal of Development Economics, 103, 313–335. doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2013.03.003
  • Moe, T. M. (2001). The politics of vouchers. In T. M. Moe (Ed.), Schools, vouchers, and the American public (pp. 15–42). Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864j.ctv893jf3.5
  • Muralidharan, K., & Kremer, M. (2008). Public and private schools in rural India.
  • Nambissan, G. B. (2012). Private schools for the poor: Business as usual? Economic and Political Weekly, 47(41), 51–58.
  • Neal, D. (2002). How vouchers could change the market for education. The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 16(4), 25–44. doi:10.1257/089533002320950966
  • Nyabola, N. (2018). Digital democracy, analogue politics: How the internet era is transforming politics in Kenya. London: Zed.
  • Pandey, P., Goyal, S., & Sundararaman, V. (2009). Community participation in public schools: Impact of information campaigns in three Indian states. Education Economics, 17(3), 355–375. doi:10.1080/09645290903157484
  • Papacharissi, Z. (2010). A private sphere: Democracy in a digital age. Polity.
  • Peisakhin, L. (2012). Transparency and corruption: Evidence from India. The Journal of Law and Economics, 55(1), 129–149. doi:10.1086/663727
  • Phillips, K. J. R., Larsen, E. S., & Hausman, C. (2015). School choice & social stratification: How intra-district transfers shift the racial/ethnic and economic composition of schools. Social Science Research, 51, 30–50. doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2014.12.005
  • Pratto, F., & Stewart, A. L. (2011). Social dominance theory. In D. J. Christie (Ed.), The encyclopedia of peace psychology (pp. 1–4). Malden, MA: American Cancer Society.
  • Pritchett, L. (2013). The rebirth of education: Schooling ain’t learning. Center for Global Development.
  • Pritchett, L. (2015). Creating education systems coherent for learning outcomes. Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), Working Paper Series.15/005, 2–47 . doi:10.35489/BSG-RISE-WP_2015/005
  • Priyam, M. (2015). Contested politics of educational reform in India: Aligning opportunities with interests (1st ed.). New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
  • Przeworski, A., Stokes, S. C., & Manin, B. (1999). Democracy, accountability, and representation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139175104.
  • Reay, D., & Ball, S. J. (1997). Spoilt for choice’: The working classes and educational markets. Oxford Review of Education, 23(1), 89–101. doi:10.1080/0305498970230108
  • Riddell, A. R. (1999). The need for a multidisciplinary framework for analysing educational reform in developing countries. International Journal of Educational Development, 19(3), 207–217. doi:10.1016/s0738-0593(99)00013-9
  • Schedler, A., Diamond, L. J., & Plattner, M. F. (1999). The self-restraining state: Power and accountability in new democracies. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers. https://contentstore.cla.co.uk/secure/link?id = cc83c7e8-cfe8-e811-80cd-005056af4099
  • Schneider, K., Schuchart, C., Weishaupt, H., & Riedel, A. (2011). The effect of free primary school choice on ethnic groups: Evidence from a policy reform (Schumpeter Discussion Papers No. 2011–007). University of Wuppertal, Schumpeter School of Business and Economics. http://hdl.handle.net/10419/68702
  • Simpson, J. (2015). Popular South African private school accused of ‘segregation’ in new race row. The Independent. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/popular-south-african-private-school-accused-segregation-new-race-row-10023316.html
  • Singh, S. S. (2019). How to win an Indian election: What political parties don’t want you to know. Gurgaon, India: Ebury Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
  • Spencer, J. (1997). Post-colonialism and the political imagination. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 3(1), 1. doi:10.2307/3034362
  • Tooley, J., Bao, Y., Dixon, P., & Merrifield, J. (2011). School choice and academic performance: Some evidence from developing countries. Journal of School Choice, 5(1), 1–39. doi:10.1080/15582159.2011.548234
  • Tooley, J., & Dixon, P. (2006). ‘De facto’ privatisation of education and the poor: Implications of a study from sub-saharan Africa and India. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 36(4), 443–462. doi:10.1080/03057920601024891
  • UNICEF. (2021). Primary education. UNICEF. https://data.unicef.org/topic/education/primary-education/
  • Vaishnav, M. (2019). Religious nationalism and India’s future. Carnegie endowment for international peace.
  • Vandenberghe, V. (1999). Combining market and bureaucratic control in education: An answer to market and bureaucratic failure? Comparative Education, 35(3), 271–282. doi:10.1080/03050069927829
  • Waslander, S., Pater, C., & van der Weide, M. (2010). Markets in education: An analytical review of empirical research on market mechanisms in education. OECD Education Working Papers, No. 52, OECD Publishing. doi: 10.1787/5km4pskmkr27-en
  • Williams, P., Kamra, L., Johar, P., Khan, F. M., Kumar, M., & Oza, E. (2022). No room for dissent: Domesticating WhatsApp, digital private spaces, and lived democracy in India. Antipode, 54(1), 305–330. doi:10.1111/anti.12779
  • Wilson, D., & Bridge, G. (2019). School choice and the city: Geographies of allocation and segregation. Urban Studies, 56(15), 3198–3215. doi:10.1177/0042098019843481
  • World Bank. (2003). World development report 2004: Making services work for poor people. The World Bank. doi:10.1596/0-8213-5468-X
  • World Bank. (2017). World development report 2018: Learning to realize education’s promise.
  • World Bank. (2018). World development report 2018: Learning to realize education’s promise. Washington, DC: World Bank.doi:10.1596/978-1-4648-1096-1
  • Yan, Y. (2019). Making accountability work in basic education: Reforms, challenges, and the role of the government. Policy Design and Practice, 2(1), 90–102. doi:10.1080/25741292.2019.1580131