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Outsourcing education services in South Korea, England and Hong Kong: a discursive institutionalist analysis.

Authors :
Bates, Agnieszka
Choi, Tae-Hee
Kim, Yong
Source :
Compare: A Journal of Comparative & International Education; Feb2021, Vol. 51 Issue 2, p259-277, 19p
Publication Year :
2021

Abstract

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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
03057925
Volume :
51
Issue :
2
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Compare: A Journal of Comparative & International Education
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
148981252
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2019.1614431