PRIVATIZATION OF EDUCATION IN 24 AFRICAN STATES: TRENDS, COMMON POINTS, AND OUTLIERS

ABSTRACT

The article aims to focus on the main trends related to the privatization of the education in 24 African countries considered fragile by the Global Partnership for Education, comparing differences and common points. To achieve this goal, a documental corpus was used for the content analysis of the gathered data, as to emphasize the expressed content. The analysis shows the predominance, in the different countries, of the perspective of planned privatization of education, not de facto. It also allowed us to conclude that, when the documents mention private management, they refer to the community/the parents. It was also concluded that there is a predominance of decisions based on scientific evidences, although five countries can be considered outliers.

Keywords
Privatization of education; Global South; Africa; Global Partnership for Education