Beyond narrow definitions
Quantifying school privatisation across countries and over time
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21725684 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gabriel Gutiérrez (0000-0002-6477-5783, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, corresponding author), Sonia Exley (0000-0003-4240-3070, London School of Economics and Political Science) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 508-529 |
| Publication date | 2025-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Educational Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1474-9041 • E-ISSN: 2165-8714 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14749041241312274 |
| OpenAlex | W4406245346 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 50 |
The OECD reported that the proportions of students enrolled in ‘private schools’ have remained stable since 2000. Drawing on the concepts of endogenous and exogenous privatisation, we question this statement, arguing that school privatisation can be disaggregated into four dimensions: private provision, restricted access, school competition and school autonomy. We operationalise these dimensions using indicators from the PISA school questionnaire. We explore changes cross-nationally between 2000 and 2018 in 35 educational systems, revealing increases in secondary school competition dynamics over time and some cases of substantial increases in autonomous school-level decision-making. We also provide an up-to-date landscape of school privatisation for 64 countries in 2018 and highlight the relevance of using a wide set of indicators to report the extent of privatisation, accounting for both endogenous and exogenous sides of the phenomenon. Finally, we discuss ways in which cross-national quantitative data collection on schools might be developed to produce a more appropriate quantification of privatisation
Autonomy · Economics · Market economy · Phenomenon · Political science · Public economics · School choice · Sociology · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities · School Choice and Performance
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |