The Violence of Compassion

Lissovoy, Noah De

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“…For Klees and others who adopt this view, the inability of private education to make good on promises to bring equity and quality educational services to poor children has nothing to do with experiments gone wrong or the misguided efforts of well-meaning, if out of touch, elites and their foundations who anoint themselves experts on nothing but the basis of their money and power. Private education cannot be improved, because education is not really the goal, as they suggest, but rather profit (de Lissovoy, 2018;Klees, 2018;Olmedo, 2017). It is a "con on society," plain and simple, as Spreen and Kamat (2018. p. 119) put it, and as such, must be challenged at every turn.…”

Section: Education Inc: Money Power and Politicsmentioning

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Critical approaches to private education in the Global South

Inglis

2023

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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

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Critical approaches to private education in the Global South

Inglis

2023

Sociology Compass

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The Violence of Compassion

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Critical approaches to private education in the Global South

Critical approaches to private education in the Global South

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