Low cost schools, without teachers. The privatization of education «by default» in low-income countries

• Main Authors: Leoncio VEGA GIL, Andrea MARTÍN GARCÍA
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2020-08-01
• Series: AULA: Revista de Pedagogía
• Subjects: privatización de la educación; educación por defecto; capitalismo pedagógico; bajo coste
• Online Access: https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/0214-3402/article/view/23737

This research work tries to perform a critical and socio-historical analysis of the formation and expansion of private education models, as well as the logic of the privatization of education in some countries with low income. It is these contexts that are being used by new forms of education to experiment, establish and spread of low-cost and, therefore, affordable educational models for low-income families in contexts of economic and social vulnerability. The work focuses on the analysis of two countries and two educational projects. This is Kenya, the epicenter country of experimentation and spread of the bia model (Bridge International Academies), and Peru, in which the Innova Schools (is) are proliferating like daisies in the hands of the most important industrial and commercial corporation in the country. These projects, supported even by public institutions, are the result of the absence of the public network due to structural limitations and the high cost of the school. The private option is more economically profitable and of a higher level of quality of the official education offered. In the end, these projects are neither as integrated, nor as social, nor as excellent, nor as pedagogical as they are presented.