Time to Turn the Tide: Privatisation Trends in Education in the Caribbean
Appendices Appendix One: The features of education privatisation used in our survey Features are adapted from Winchip et al. (2019). The brief discussion is ours. L = Leaders’ survey 1
P = Parents’ survey
T = Teachers’ survey
You are responsible for your school’s budget (L) The decentralisation of the management of school budgets is an indicator of privatisation because provision cannot be privatised if it retains important structural dependencies such as for budgeting on the local authority, or district.
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Your funding is based on a voucher system (L; P) Vouchers are an indicator of privatisation because they formalise education as a ‘producer-consumer’ relationship and enable public money to subsidise (quasi) private provision (see Carrasco and Gunter, 2019).
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Your school can gain additional funding through competitively awarded government funds (L) This indicates privatisation because it normalises both the under-funding of public schooling and the development of an entrepreneurial disposition in school leaders.
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Pupil enrolment is based on parent choice (L; P; T) This indicates privatisation because parent choice operationalises market principles in education. The differential capacity of parents to choose has implications for equity; in other words, those with more cultural and economic capital are able and disposed to make choices which reproduce that capital.
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