Buying, Selling and Outsourcing Educational Reform: The Global Education Industry and 'Policy Borrowing' in the Gulf

Autor/inn/en	Mohamed, Maryam; Morris, Paul
Titel	Buying, Selling and Outsourcing Educational Reform: The Global Education Industry and 'Policy Borrowing' in the Gulf
Quelle	In: Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 51 (2021) 2, S.181-201 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Mohamed, Maryam)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-7925
DOI	10.1080/03057925.2019.1607255
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational Change; Commercialization; Global Approach; Educational Policy; Outsourcing; Policy Formation; Elementary Secondary Education; Bahrain; Qatar; Kuwait; Oman; Saudi Arabia; United Arab Emirates + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Bildungsreform; Globales Denken; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Politische Betätigung; Katar; Saudi-Arabien; Vereinigte Arabische Emirate
Abstract	This paper analyses the approach to systemic educational reform in the Arabian states of the Gulf and the central role within that of the Global Education Industry (GEI). Initially the authors identify the commonalities of their approach; subsequently they compare the approaches in Bahrain and Qatar. They demonstrate how the GEI is embedded in all stages of policy making, delivery and monitoring which revolves around the selling of 'best global practices'. They argue that the outcome is a commercial model of applied 'comparative education' designed for 'selling to the other' and it is both distinctive and of limited effectiveness; it also provides a vision of the future as educational policy making is increasingly outsourced to the private sector. They conclude with a discussion of the conditions which facilitated this approach and of what others might learn from the experience of the Gulf. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01