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“This book is unique in analyzing the development of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) in Nordic European societies from a welfare mix perspective. Albeit subject to “This book is unique in analyzing the development of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) in Nordic European societies from a welfare mix perspective. Albeit subject to national variation, the Nordic model of ECEC has transited from publicness, child centeredness, and transparency towards greater reliance on for-profit provision, service diversification, and performativity. The book is brilliant and convincing in identifying both the drivers and pathways of this profound institutional change.” —Antoni Verger, Professor of Sociology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain “This is a much-needed and timely book on ECEC governance in the Nordic welfare states. The readers are provided with detailed comparative accounts of diverging and converging Nordic trends. In addition, the book fruitfully addresses a wider and crucial contemporary issue in the Nordic welfare states—the(contested) role of private providers. These features make this book a very important contribution.” —Linda Rönnberg, Professor in Educational Work, Umeå University, Sweden This book explores the increasing role of private providers in early childhood education and care (ECEC) as they become a core part of the Nordic welfare model—one that once rejected for-profit involvement in public welfare. Within this context, ECEC has become the key battleground over private providers’ role in the welfare system. Chapters compare five Nordic countries: Iceland, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, to discuss possible benefits from having different types of providers—public, nonprofit, and for-profit—in the welfare mix. To conclude, the authors also provide a comparative perspective on governance of the ECEC sector and on the development and functions of the Nordic welfare model. Håkon Solbu Trætteberg is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Research, Norway. Karl Henrik Sivesind is Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research, Norway. Maiju Paananen is Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education at Tampere University, Finland. Steinunn Hrafnsdóttir is Professor in the Faculty of Social Work at the School of Social Sciences, University of Iceland.

Early childhood education --- Privatization in education

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This book explores democratic possibilities for education after the critique of the impact of neo-liberalism on educational policy and practice. Together, the authors investigate the contours of a ‘new publicness’ of education.This edited volume refers to well-established critiques that expose how neoliberal governance has normalised the privatisation of public life and undermined the public nature of education. Through historical reconstruction, theoretical exploration, and analyses of educational policies and practices, chapters take a novel approach by investigating democratic possibilities within and beyond the current neoliberal hegemony in education. Covering a range of educational settings – from early childhood education through to higher and professional education – chapters spotlight the Irish educational and political context, as well as exploring international implications.Ultimately, this book opens up new avenues for discussion around public education and its future, and will therefore be of great interest to researchers and students in the fields of educational theory, education politics, educational policy and democratic education.

Education and state --- Neoliberalism --- Privatization in education --- Public schools --- Neo-liberalism --- Liberalism --- Privatization of education --- Privatization of schooling --- School privatization --- Education --- Charter schools --- Common schools --- Grammar schools --- School funds --- Secondary schools --- Schools

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This book explores the complex and various forms that privatization of education takes on a global scale at different ages of schooling. Through the spread of neoliberal policies in education both in the global North and the global South, the book suggests that this process is leading to new forms of schooling and socio-spatial dynamics linked to the creation of increasingly competitive school markets. The book highlights some of the main issues that such competition generates by focusing on the acceleration of the segregative processes on one hand but also on the alternatives that are emerging regarding this global context on the other hand. It considers processes of domination, hegemony, but also exclusion and segregation, eventually exploring contradictions inherent to societies. It presents innovative empirical and conceptual research by international scholars from the fields of social geography, sociology, history and demography in the United States, Lebanon, France, Afghanistan and Chile, thereby transcending disciplinary boundaries. Developed in under or unexplored contexts, the book broadens the reflection to social representations, individual and collective strategies, adaptation, innovation and also resistances.

Privatization in education. --- Privatization of education --- Privatization of schooling --- School privatization --- Education --- Charter schools --- Human geography. --- Inclusive education. --- Schools. --- Education, Higher. --- Human Geography. --- Inclusive Education. --- School and Schooling. --- Higher Education. --- College students --- Higher education --- Postsecondary education --- Universities and colleges --- Public institutions --- Inclusion (Education) --- Inclusive learning --- Inclusive schools movement --- Least restrictive environment --- Mainstreaming in education --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology

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"For five centuries, the development of capitalism has been inextricably connected to the expropriation of working people from the land they depended on for subsistence. Through ruling class assaults known as enclosures or clearances, shared common land became privately-owned capital, and peasant farmers became propertyless laborers who could only survive by working for the owners of land or capital. As Ian Angus documents in The War Against the Commons, mass opposition to dispossession has never ceased. His dramatic account provides new insights into an opposition that ranged from stubborn non-compliance to open rebellion, including eyewitness accounts of campaigns in which thousands of protestors tore down fences and restored common access to pastures and forests. Contrary to many accounts that treat the reorganization of agriculture as a purely domestic matter, Angus shows that there were close connections between the enclosures in Britain and imperial expansion"--

Commons --- Inclosures --- Eminent domain --- Agricultural laborers --- Agriculture and state --- Privatization --- Capitalism --- History. --- History. --- History. --- Social conditions. --- History. --- History. --- History.

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What is the social cost of privatising public services? And what effect has the failure of previous privatisations had? This book tells how social work services are now being out-sourced to private companies and how this trend threatens the safety and wellbeing of vulnerable children and disabled adults.

Privatization. --- Social services: contracting out. --- People with disabilities: government policy. --- Abused children: government polic --- Social services: government policy. --- Child welfare: government policy. --- Denationalization --- Privatisation --- Contracting out --- Corporatization --- Government ownership --- Abused children --- People with disabilities --- Social service --- Services for --- Government policy