{"id":5635,"date":"2018-09-04T13:26:30","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T21:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/?p=5635"},"modified":"2018-09-04T13:26:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T21:26:30","slug":"the-many-faces-of-privatization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2018\/09\/the-many-faces-of-privatization\/","title":{"rendered":"The Many Faces of Privatization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public funding for private schools may be the most obvious way public education in British Columbia is being privatized, but there are other less obvious privatizing strategies at work. <a href=\"http:\/\/instituteforpubliceducation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Many-Faces-of-Privatization-IPEBC-Occasional-Paper-1.pdf\">The Many Faces of Privatization<\/a> is a background paper I co-authored with <a href=\"http:\/\/ecps.educ.ubc.ca\/person\/sandra-mathison\/\">Sandra Mathison<\/a>\u00a0and Larry Kuehn as part of <a href=\"http:\/\/instituteforpubliceducation.org\/projects\/funding-public-education-project\/\">Funding Public Education project<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/instituteforpubliceducation.org\/\">Institute for Public Education \/ British Columbia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The paper offers analysis of 1) the common neoliberal narrative that legitimizes and promotes privatization thus drawing the public into a manufactured consent of privatization and 2) specific contexts in which this privatization in manifest, such as personalized learning (especially with technology), choice programs, school fees and fund raising, business principles of school administration, corporate sponsorships, fee paying international students, and publicly funded private schools.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/instituteforpubliceducation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Many-Faces-of-Privatization-IPEBC-Occasional-Paper-1.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5636\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/files\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-04-at-2.22.18-PM-788x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"806\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/files\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-04-at-2.22.18-PM-788x1024.png 788w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/files\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-04-at-2.22.18-PM-231x300.png 231w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/files\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-04-at-2.22.18-PM-768x998.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/files\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-04-at-2.22.18-PM-620x806.png 620w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/files\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-04-at-2.22.18-PM.png 1626w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public funding for private schools may be the most obvious way public education in British Columbia is being privatized, but there are other less obvious privatizing strategies at work. The Many Faces of Privatization is a background paper I co-authored with Sandra Mathison\u00a0and Larry Kuehn as part of Funding Public Education project of the Institute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[399,2152,662],"tags":[634,125421,953513,115,1010695,1572120,122,272991,3484,844463,252640,1572144,4768,1572143],"class_list":["post-5635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-education-reform","category-media","tag-bc","tag-bc-schools","tag-bced","tag-british-columbia","tag-education-funding","tag-ipe-bc","tag-neoliberalism","tag-personalized-learning","tag-privatization","tag-privatization-of-education","tag-public-schools","tag-publicly-funded-private-schools","tag-school-choice","tag-the-commons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5635"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5640,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635\/revisions\/5640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}