Pro-market educational governance

Is Argentina a black swan

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12905906
AutoresJason Beech (0000-0002-4971-7665, autor de correspondencia), Ignacio Barrenechea
Año2011
Volumen52
Número3
Páginas279-293
Fecha de publicación2011-09-16
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCritical Studies in Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1750-8487 • E-ISSN: 1750-8495
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17508487.2011.604077
OpenAlexW2095289058
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas23

In this article we explore ways in which pro-market discourses have been interpreted in policy initiatives in Argentina since the 1970s. Our argument is that even though pro-market discourses have guided reforms in many aspects of public policies in Argentina, the arena of education has overall been resistant to taking them up. The first part of the article analyses the origins of a strong discursive and symbolic link between notions of 'public education' and 'National State-centred education' in Argentina and then examines the development of private education in that country. The second section analyses economic change in Argentina and describes the influence that pro-market ideologies had on policies of the military dictatorship of the 1970s. Third, we present reforms implemented during the 1990s, arguing that some principles associated with pro-market discourses were visible only at the level of official rhetoric. Fourth, we analyse briefly recent developments in the Kirchner administrations, which position themselves as being discursively 'anti-neoliberal'. Lastly, we offer some reflections about the exception of Argentine education as regards pro-market forms of governance and the implications of this for thinking about the global diffusion of this ideology and its effects in practice. keywords: Argentinacomparative and international educationeducational governanceeducational policyneoconservatism/neoliberalism

Argument (complex analysis · Corporate governance · Economics · Ideology · Management · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Sociology · State (computer science · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities · Law · Public Administration