Corporate social responsibility and education reform in Brazil: a critical analysis

Santos, Heitor

doi:10.4337/9781789904123.00017

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“…The actions of organizations and foundations in specific contexts offer additional clues about what these groups prize, above all, and where children fit within larger business plans. In Brazil, for instance, as Santos (2019) discovers, Intel committed resources to supporting science fairs across the school system. But what appeared initially as a win‐win—children with the chance to develop and share science projects of interest to them, while Intel reaps the positive publicity—did not last.…”

Section: Education Inc: Money Power and Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Critical approaches to private education in the Global South

Inglis

2023

Sociology Compass

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This article highlights the key themes that animate the critical discourse on private education initiatives targeting poor children in the Global South. Scholars in the field remain skeptical that public-private partnerships, low-fee private schools, and various subsidy and voucher programs are best suited to addressing the underlying issues of equity and quality that plague public education systems in low-and middle-income countries. Most, however, tend to adopt one of two different, though complementary, lines of analysis in drawing attention to the issue. Some scholars, for instance, use empirical evidence to show how low-fee private schools fall short of delivering on promises to address the needs of all children and enhancing basic literacy and numeracy scores in comparison to public schools. Other scholars, however, map networks of people and money to reveal how private education in the Global South is guided by power and profit.The paper outlines the moral and analytic interests that guide these two approaches to the challenge private education presents, while also making the case for an additional mode of analysis that would test the democratic and social justice claims that feature in mission statements of larger foundations and institutions set in vulnerable societies.

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Section: Education Inc: Money Power and Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%