Globalization, Privatization, and the State: Contemporary Education Reform in Post-Colonial Contexts [Paperback]

This text explores how the dynamics of globalization and privatization have influenced state policy and impacted education reform in Honduras. This text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with a focus on international and comparative education, policy analysis, globalization, and international development.

This book bursts open the taken-for-granted concepts of the state that circulate in studies of globalisation and education. Putting a critical reading of state theories into conversation with the specificities of educational privatization in Honduras, the authors illuminate the urgent need for a sustained and robust understanding of the interlocking forces of colonialism and capitalism in the field of education.

-        Arathi Sriprakash, Professor of Education, University of Bristol, UK

 

This book offers and applies a much-needed framework for the study of the links between education reform and globalization in post-colonial settings. In doing so, it illuminates and accurately critiques the lack of deeper engagement with the (post-colonial) State in comparative and international education. The result is an impressive account of the ways that education reforms in Honduras have been--and continue to be--informed by logics, practices, and relationships that have their origins in colonialism.  Most importantly, the book's framework and insights are broadly relevant and are sure to serve as key referents for work at the intersection of education, the State, and privatization.

-        Xavier Bonal, Professor, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain

 

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