Public Private Partnerships in Education: Market Justice and the Making of a Market Society Susan L. Robertson Centre for Globalisation, Education and Social Futures, University of Bristol – Presentation to ANPED, Brasil, 6th October, 2015

introduction

PPPs…A Trojan Horse?

Market Justice the new paradigm …human capital, audits, outputs, competition, prices, standards, marginal productivity, payment by results, incentives, new public management….

Social Inequalities, a Class War and the Rise of the Private Warren Buffett the fourth wealthiest person in the world, stated to the New York Times in 2006: “…sure there is a class war, and it is my class, the rich, who are making it, and we are winning” (Stein, 2006: 1)

The new edu-business entrepreneurs

PPPs and the Rise of Market Justice – 5 trends …………

Trend 1…declining tax receipts

Trend 2..rising inequalities.. (1%)

Trend 3..education a new frontier for commodification

Trend 4 ..new social norms – individualism, entrepreneurship

Trend 5 ..private authority and limits of the state

By way of conclusion….an agenda