New public management as a global education policy

In the education sector, new public management (NPM) has crystallized in policies such as school autonomy, professionalization of school principals, standardized evaluation and teachers' accountability, and it has been widely disseminated by international organizations, such as the OECD, which...

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Autores: Verger, Antoni|||0000-0003-3255-7703, Curran, Marta|||0000-0003-1956-7616
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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Idioma:inglés
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Palavra-chave:Education reform
Global governance
Privatization
Comparative and international education
Discourse analysis/semiotics
Educational leadership and management
Educational policy
Globalization and internationalization
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spelling New public management as a global education policyits adoption and re-contextualization in a Southern European settingVerger, Antoni|||0000-0003-3255-7703Curran, Marta|||0000-0003-1956-7616Education reformGlobal governancePrivatizationComparative and international educationDiscourse analysis/semioticsEducational leadership and managementEducational policyGlobalization and internationalizationIn the education sector, new public management (NPM) has crystallized in policies such as school autonomy, professionalization of school principals, standardized evaluation and teachers' accountability, and it has been widely disseminated by international organizations, such as the OECD, which enjoy a great prestige when it comes to frame education reforms in European countries. This article analyses the way NPM has been constructed as a global education policy, and its adoption and re-contextualization into the Spanish education context. This article shows that the reasons for adopting NPM are not so different from those prevailing in other countries where these policies have been implemented before. Counter-intuitively, although NPM is a reform programme traditionally initiated by conservative governments, in the Spanish education field, as also happened in other Central and Northern European countries, it has been adopted and regulated with social democratic governments. In all these countries, social democrats have tended to embrace NPM as an attempt to address the legitimacy crisis of the welfare state and of public services in particular. Nonetheless, in Spain, the NPM reforms have been re-contextualized and regulated in very uneven and paradoxical ways. For a combination of political, institutional and economic reasons, the final form adopted by the NPM approach is far from the model advocated by the international community and is deeply contradictory. Our arguments are based on intensive fieldwork that include, on the one hand, interviews with key education policy-makers and stakeholders and, on the other, document analysis of policy briefings, press releases and legal documents. 22014-01-0120142014-01-01Articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501AMhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_ab4af688f83e57aainfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://ddd.uab.cat/record/170038https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1080/17508487.2014.913531reponame:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UABinstname:Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Aquest material està protegit per drets d'autor i/o drets afins. Podeu utilitzar aquest material en funció del que permet la legislació de drets d'autor i drets afins d'aplicació al vostre cas. Per a d'altres usos heu d'obtenir permís del(s) titular(s) de drets.https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ddd.uab.cat:1700382026-06-06T12:50:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv New public management as a global education policy
its adoption and re-contextualization in a Southern European setting
title New public management as a global education policy
spellingShingle New public management as a global education policy
Verger, Antoni|||0000-0003-3255-7703
Education reform
Global governance
Privatization
Comparative and international education
Discourse analysis/semiotics
Educational leadership and management
Educational policy
Globalization and internationalization
title_short New public management as a global education policy
title_full New public management as a global education policy
title_fullStr New public management as a global education policy
title_full_unstemmed New public management as a global education policy
title_sort New public management as a global education policy
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Verger, Antoni|||0000-0003-3255-7703
Curran, Marta|||0000-0003-1956-7616
author Verger, Antoni|||0000-0003-3255-7703
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Curran, Marta|||0000-0003-1956-7616
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Education reform
Global governance
Privatization
Comparative and international education
Discourse analysis/semiotics
Educational leadership and management
Educational policy
Globalization and internationalization
topic Education reform
Global governance
Privatization
Comparative and international education
Discourse analysis/semiotics
Educational leadership and management
Educational policy
Globalization and internationalization
description In the education sector, new public management (NPM) has crystallized in policies such as school autonomy, professionalization of school principals, standardized evaluation and teachers' accountability, and it has been widely disseminated by international organizations, such as the OECD, which enjoy a great prestige when it comes to frame education reforms in European countries. This article analyses the way NPM has been constructed as a global education policy, and its adoption and re-contextualization into the Spanish education context. This article shows that the reasons for adopting NPM are not so different from those prevailing in other countries where these policies have been implemented before. Counter-intuitively, although NPM is a reform programme traditionally initiated by conservative governments, in the Spanish education field, as also happened in other Central and Northern European countries, it has been adopted and regulated with social democratic governments. In all these countries, social democrats have tended to embrace NPM as an attempt to address the legitimacy crisis of the welfare state and of public services in particular. Nonetheless, in Spain, the NPM reforms have been re-contextualized and regulated in very uneven and paradoxical ways. For a combination of political, institutional and economic reasons, the final form adopted by the NPM approach is far from the model advocated by the international community and is deeply contradictory. Our arguments are based on intensive fieldwork that include, on the one hand, interviews with key education policy-makers and stakeholders and, on the other, document analysis of policy briefings, press releases and legal documents.
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