Session Information
23 SES 03 B, Philanthropy in Education: What is Education for?
Symposium
Contribution
This paper maps the rise of venture philanthropy in public education, exploring how policy networks mobilise high-level systemic reform and governance technologies. This is philanthrocapitalism, a fundamental shift for policy mobility and modes of redistribution. The paper focuses on a major venture philanthropic node, named Social Ventures Australia (SVA). SVA is the brainchild of the global multinational McKinsey and Company and is a useful example to map how venture philanthropy leverages resources, and in the process, fundamentally changes the shape, functionality and form of traditional government. In their lobbying and advocacy work to influence education policy, SVA successfully advocated for a number of intermediaries, including a national research evidence institute. The education research institute is modelled upon and funded by the Education Endowment Foundation from the United Kingdom. Thereby, the paper views policy networks through a lens of globalization, considering how globalization retains an ‘undeniably material form’ (Rizvi & Lingard 2010) in entrenching global interconnectedness and establishing both funding pipelines and market-based reform agendas. It seeks to show the global to the local, in how these reforms are nested within globalized networks, whilst impacting and mobilizing national education policy and public schools. Venture philanthropy and the way in which these networks achieve high-level systemic reform is under-researched in Australia. These networks stand as a critical lever of policy reform in public education. This paper will scrutinise and map the way these networks mobilise reform and function as an identifiable form of economic exchange.
References
Rizwi, F., Lingard, B., Rizwi, F., & Lingard, B. (2010). Education policy and the allocation of values. F. Rizwi, & B. Lingard, Globalizing education policy, 70-91.
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