Manufacturing an illusory consensus? A bibliometric analysis of the international debate on education privatisation

Antoni Verger; Clara Fontdevila; Ruarri Rogan; Thomas Gurney

doi:10.1016/j.ijedudev.2017.12.011

Manufacturing an illusory consensus? A bibliometric analysis of the international debate on education privatisation

Antoni Verger, Clara Fontdevila, Ruarri Rogan, Thomas Gurney

Department of Sociology

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Abstract

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd As one of the most polarised areas in education research, the education privatisation debate generates opportunities for knowledge-brokers to promote their preferred policy alternatives. Based on bibliometric analysis techniques, this paper maps the configuration of the academic debate on privatisation, and explores how it is connected with the references mobilized by a group of international agencies located at the interstices of the research and policy fields. Our findings suggest that, when confronted with certain incentives, some international agencies use evidence in a selective and tactical way as a means to support their pre-established policy pReferences.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	81-95
Journal	International Journal of Educational Development
Volume	64
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2017.12.011
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2019

Keywords

Bibliometrics
Evidence-based policy [free descriptor]
International organisations
Knowledge brokers [free descriptor]
Network analysis
Privatisation

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