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Conclusion: Changing Education in the GEI—Rationales, Logics, and Modes of Operation

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Increasingly, as the discussions in the preceding chapters show, economic rationales and logics pervade educational thinking and practice; business strategies and modes of operation progressively penetrate the education sector with the active involvement of business actors and stakeholders. In the concluding chapter, we want to go beyond the particular expressions and manifestations of the Global Education Industry (GEI) phenomenon by discerning different but overarching rationales, logics, and modes of operation identified from a more synthetic reading of the chapters included in this volume. The chapter is rounded out by raising questions as to the social dislocations gaped open by the GEI phenomena and interrogations of theoretical lenses that guide our analyses.

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Notes

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    See for instance: Berliner & Biddle (1995); Cizek (1999); Ertl (2006); Gruber (2006).

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    We would like to thank Frank-Olaf Radtke for his perceptive comments on these issues, in particular his pointing to the shortcomings of contemporary theoretical perspectives in assessing the phenomena encompassed in the GEI.

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Parreira do Amaral, M., Thompson, C. (2019). Conclusion: Changing Education in the GEI—Rationales, Logics, and Modes of Operation. In: Parreira do Amaral, M., Steiner-Khamsi, G., Thompson, C. (eds) Researching the Global Education Industry. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04236-3_13

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