ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a local vernacular analysis of recent education privatisations in Aotearoa New Zealand. Specifically, it examines contemporary charitable activity in the New Zealand state schooling sector, and its emergent impact on schooling policy trajectories and effects. A focal point is the discursive manner in which it is possible for charities to have become softly incorporated within the language, practices and relations of state schooling policy networks, contributing to what Ball and Junemann conclude is a new form of education governance. The chapter discusses the key vernacular dimensions of state schooling in New Zealand that have lubricated changing views of the boundaries between 'public' and 'private' goods. Education organisations in New Zealand, especially the that are registered charities, are made viable and visible by partnering with a messy mix of organisations across multiple sectors. Charities and philanthropic actors have now emerged as important contributors to this economised state schooling discourse at both central and local levels.
