The World Bank and Private Provision of Schooling: A Look through the Lens of Sociological Theories of Organizational Hypocrisy

Autor/inn/en	Mundy, Karen; Menashy, Francine
Titel	The World Bank and Private Provision of Schooling: A Look through the Lens of Sociological Theories of Organizational Hypocrisy
Quelle	In: Comparative Education Review, 58 (2014) 3, S.401-427 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-4086
DOI	10.1086/676329
Schlagwörter	International Organizations; Banking; Poverty; Educational Change; Private Schools; Privatization; Sociology; Private Sector; Policy Analysis; Educational Policy; Cooperative Programs; Theory Practice Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? International organisation; International organisations; International organization; Internationale Organisation; Bankgeschäft; Armut; Bildungsreform; Private school; Privatschule; Privatisation; Privatisierung; Soziologie; Privater Sektor; Politikfeldanalyse; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Theorie-Praxis-Beziehung
Abstract	In this article, we explore how the World Bank operationalizes its focus on poverty alleviation in one of the most controversial arenas of educational change: the expansion of privately provided schooling. We argue that the Bank's role in promoting private provision has been far more complicated than most critics have discerned. It has involved several distinctive forms of policy entrepreneurship alongside very limited investment and lending. Policy talk, policy decisions, and operational activities have diverged in ways that raise real questions about the functioning and efficacy of the Bank. Drawing on organizational sociology, this article identifies several distinct disjunctures among Bank activities related to private educational provision and characterizes these disjunctures as forms of organizational hypocrisy. (As Provided).
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