Privatising education policy-making in Italy: New governance and the reculturing of a welfarist education state

Grimaldi, Emiliano; Serpieri, Roberto

doi:10.3402/edui.v4i3.22615

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“…This is crucial, in my view, if we want to understand the pervasive force of the various forms of privatisation(s) and their implications for the future of education. In a comparative perspective, the combination of these two analytical stances allows recognition of the transnational traits of the processes of privatisation(s), as well as of the different forms and different degrees of intensity they assume across Europe (Ball & Junemann, 2012;Grimaldi & Serpieri, 2013;Olmedo, 2013).…”

Section: Privatisation(s) As Widespread Phenomena In the Global Eduscapementioning

confidence: 99%

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Old and New Markets in Education: Austerity, Standards and ICT as Pushes towards Privatisation(s) in Italy

Grimaldi

2013

European Educational Research Journal

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This article deals with the issue of privatisation(s) in the field of education. In doing so, it focuses on three distinct, although interrelated, processes currently being experienced in the Italian education system: (a) the widening of the spaces for private schooling; (b) the ongoing privatisation of policy and the related blurring of the boundaries between public policy-making and the private sector; and (c) the dynamics of new/old markets where commercial actors and edu-businesses sell tools, technologies, knowledge and data, policy programs and recipes that inform educational processes. The work tries to highlight some connections between specific developments in these three processes of privatisation(s) and three distinct policy trends that are increasingly shaping the European education space, namely austerity, standardisation, and digitalisation. The conclusion discusses the actual and potential implications of all of this for both the ongoing transformation of the role of the education state in the post-welfarist scenario, and the restructuring of the societal governing of education, reflecting on the relationship between these specific processes of privatisation(s), the related reshaping of the role of the education state, that seems to shift towards a metagovernance function, and the developing of a new market-like governmental environment informed by the neo-liberal imaginary.

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Section: Privatisation(s) As Widespread Phenomena In the Global Eduscapementioning

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“…Given these underpinnings, Italy could represent an interesting point of observation, given the peculiar traits of its education (and political) system and its path dependencies (Grimaldi & Serpieri, 2012;Landri, 2009). I will justify this statement, giving at least three reasons.…”

Section: Privatisation(s) As Widespread Phenomena In the Global Eduscapementioning

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Old and New Markets in Education: Austerity, Standards and ICT as Pushes towards Privatisation(s) in Italy

Grimaldi

2013

European Educational Research Journal

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“…The design of the pilot policies was somehow delegated to three philanthropic foundations, clearly linked to the entrepreneurial and financial world, together with some champions of the fashioned meritocratic turn. We do not have the space here to go into detail on the two pilot policies (for a detailed analysis, see Barzanò &Grimaldi &Serpieri, 2013b). However, we would like to highlight how the two policies have followed two different logics, reflecting the diverse discursive and ideological positions of the three foundations that inspired them.…”

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“…A two-way flow of actors and ideas between state and (education) services and the private sector initiates the heavily influenced policy thinking about education. Philanthropic actors and their experts become the key promoters, relays and legitimizers of the organising watchwords of the new discourse of education reform (Grimaldi & Serpieri, 2013b).…”

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“…The latest act of this programme, although still provisional, is the 2012 VALES, a still ongoing experiment that follows an intense season of education policymaking where the focus seemed to shift from the evaluation of the head teacher to that of schools and teachers. As in the case of selection and training, we have used a matrix with two dimen-sions (public/private and education/economy) to outline the scenario of head teacher evaluation policies, reconstructing a map of the relationships between institutional and organisational actors, and evaluation devices and artefacts (a more detailed account is offered in Serpieri, 2012, andGrimaldi &Serpieri, 2013b).…”

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Leader as Policy Device: The Hybridization of Head Teachers in Italy

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Removing Inclusion: An Analysis of Exclusionary Processes in the Italian School System

Dovigo

2023

International Perspectives on Exclusionary Pressures in Education

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Privatising education policy-making in Italy: New governance and the reculturing of a welfarist education state

Cited by 17 publications

References 20 publications

Old and New Markets in Education: Austerity, Standards and ICT as Pushes towards Privatisation(s) in Italy

Old and New Markets in Education: Austerity, Standards and ICT as Pushes towards Privatisation(s) in Italy

Leader as Policy Device: The Hybridization of Head Teachers in Italy

Removing Inclusion: An Analysis of Exclusionary Processes in the Italian School System

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