ERIC Number: EJ1288560
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 19
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Outsourcing Education Services in South Korea, England and Hong Kong: A Discursive Institutionalist Analysis
Bates, Agnieszka; Choi, Tae-Hee; Kim, Yong
Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, v51 n2 p259-277 2021
The outsourcing of education services has been widely adopted across international contexts as a 'tested solution' or panacea to meet various educational problems including school management, curriculum design, teaching and student discipline. Contracting third-party providers, it is argued, enhances organisational goals such as efficiency, quality and school improvement. However, the outsourcing of education services has also impacted on established notions concerning the boundaries around teachers' work. This paper deploys the framework of discursive institutionalism to offer insight into how the idea of outsourcing has been activated and circulated by discursive communities in three diverse international settings. Despite its problem-solution logic, the institutionalisation of outsourcing creates its own problems, not least the undermining of teacher professionalism, the 'businessification' of schools and a diminishing of their educational mission.
Descriptors: Outsourcing, Professionalism, Commercialization, Teacher Role, Guidelines, Institutional Mission, Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Administration, Bullying, Faculty Workload, Educational Improvement, Comparative Education, Government School Relationship, Violence, Educational Legislation, Teacher Student Relationship, Governance, Educational Policy, Administrative Organization, Problems, Role of Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: South Korea; United Kingdom (England); Hong Kong
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