ABSTRACT

The private sector has been assigned a leading role in the construction of a global knowledge economy (GKE), and public–private partnerships (PPPs) have been portrayed as the silver bullet that will solve many problems in public education. However, recent research has raised concern about side effects of this mode of operation. It is becoming increasingly evident that PPPs have a crucial role in the privatization and economization of the education sector on a national level and in the context of the emerging global education industry (GEI). This article collects and analyzes the characteristics of GEI with reference to the research context of expanding public-private networks in the field of German public education. It further explores how private actors came into a prominent position in public education by laying out a set of economically shaped knowledge politics and network strategies that prompted a dynamization of the field of education including education policy. Remarkably enough, core aspects of GEI highly resonate on a national scale. Taking a view on the consonances enables us to estimate the impact of those networks and open up for considering the consequences for public education.

摘要

私营部门在全球知识经济（GKE）建设中被赋予了主导作用，公私合作伙伴关系（PPP）被描述为解决公共教育中许多问题的灵丹妙药。然而，最近的研究引起了人们对这种操作模式的副作用的关注。越来越明显的是，在国家层面和新兴的全球教育产业 (GEI) 的背景下，PPP 在教育部门的私有化和经济化中发挥着至关重要的作用。本文结合德国公共教育领域扩大公私网络的研究背景，对GEI的特征进行收集和分析。它进一步探讨了私人行为者如何通过制定一套经济上塑造的知识政治和网络战略来推动教育领域的活力，包括教育政策，从而在公共教育中占据突出地位。值得注意的是，GEI 的核心方面在全国范围内引起了高度共鸣。对协和的看法使我们能够估计这些网络的影响，并开放考虑对公共教育的影响。