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

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

• Bates, Agnieszka University of East Anglia
• Choi, Tae Hee The Education University of Hong Kong
• Kim, Yong Cheongju National University of Education

Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2019

Routledge

2019

• R Educational Policy & Administration
  • RE School Management, School-Parents Relationship
• P Social Context of Education
  • PB Comparative Education

Outsourcing Discursive Institutionalism Education Reform NPM Teacher Professionalism

• South Korea
• England
• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Unknown or Unspecified

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. Copyright © 2019 British Association for International and Comparative Education.

• English

Journal Articles

• 03057925

• 10.1080/03057925.2019.1614431

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/53d2330d

2019-12-09