Public Private Partnerships in Education: New Actors and Modes of Governance in a Globalizing World

Table of contents :
1. An Introduction to Public Private Partnerships and Education Governance
Susan L. Robertson, Karen Mundy, Antoni Verger and Francine Menashy

PART I: THE RISE OF PPPs IN EDUCATION: HISTORY AND CONCEPTUAL DEBATES
2. Governing Education through Public Private Partnerships
Susan L. Robertson and Antoni Verger

3. International PPPs in Education: New Potential or Privatizing Public Goods?
Alexandra Draxler

4. Public Private Partnerships, Neoliberal Globalization and Democratization
Mark Ginsburg

PART II: UNDERSTANDING TRANSNATIONAL PPP ACTORS
5. The Role of the International Finance Corporation in the Promotion of Public Private Partnerships for Educational Development
Karen Mundy and Francine Menashy

6. The GATS Game-changer: International Trade Regulation and the Constitution of a Global Education Marketplace
Antoni Verger and Susan L. Robertson

7. Private Foundations, Philanthropy and Partnership in Education and Development: Mapping the Terrain
Prachi Srivastava and Su-Ann Oh

8. A Disconnect between Motivations and Education Needs: Why American Corporate Philanthropy Alone Will Not Educate the Most Marginalized
Justin van Fleet

9. Microsoft Corporation: A Case Study of Corporate-led PPPs in Education
Zahra Bhanji

PART III: THE IMPACT OF PPPs IN EDUCATION: EVIDENCE FROM THE FIELD
10. The Role and Impact of Public Private Partnerships in Education
Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Juliana Guaqueta and Harry Anthony Patrinos

11. Do Public Private Partnerships Fulfil the Right to Education? An Examination of the Role of Non-state Actors in Advancing Equity, Equality and Justice
Maria Ron-Balsera and Akanksha A. Marphatia

12. Is Low-fee Private Primary Schooling Affordable for the Poor? Evidence from Rural India
Joanna Härmä and Pauline Rose

13. Why Girls’ Education Rather than Gender Equality? The Strange Political Economy of PPPs in Pakistan
Shailaja Fennell

14. The Role of Central Management Structures in Public Private Partnerships: The Case of Fe y Alegría Schools in Peru
Analía V. Jaimovich