ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the role of philanthropy in the global dissemination of particular discourses and assumptions that enable the neoliberal project in education. This involves the process of reimagining the educational space as a market, whereby the relations, values and ethics of schooling are increasingly modelled on those of business, and the accompanying reconfiguration of the role of the state as a provider of education towards that of an enabler and measurer of an education market. It also implies a change in the existing forms of subjectivities that invites schools to be thought of more as producers, teachers as technical workers, families as consumers and students as products. Changes in current education governance methods and mechanisms have opened up new spaces for new policy actors to participate in processes of policymaking, service delivery and evaluation.
