ABSTRACT
This paper provides an outline of an argument of how one kind of education
privatisation could be considered positively in relation to social justice. Privatisa-
tion, the assigning of businesses or services to private rather than state control or
ownership, generally features a top-down approach; for example, governments
‘denationalise’ particular industries. The topic of this paper is a ‘bottom-up’ or
‘grassroots’ privatisation, where the people themselves, not the state-—perhaps
even against the wishes of the state-—are engaged in reassigning education to private rather than state control and ownership.
