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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462293603321

Autore

Ball Stephen J.

Titolo

Global education inc. : new policy networks and the neo-liberal imaginary / / Stephen J. Ball

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

0-429-23499-6

1-280-68274-4

9786613659682

0-203-80330-2

1-136-63284-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 p.)

Disciplina

379.1/11

Soggetti

Privatization in education

Education and globalization

Neoliberalism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Global Education Inc. New policy networks and the neo-liberal imaginary; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and boxes; Acknowledgements; Foreword: (not) reading this book; 1 Networks, neo-liberalism and policy mobilities; 2 Doing neo-liberalism - markets and states, and friends with money; 3 Transnational advocacy networks and policy entrepreneurship: Indiana Jones, business and schooling of the poor; 4 'New' philanthropy, social capitalism and education policy; 5 Policy as profit: selling and exporting policy; 6 Education as big business; 7 Money, meaning and policy connections; References

Index

Sommario/riassunto

"Education policy is being reformed and re-worked on a global scale. Policies are flowing and converging to produce a singular vision of best practice based on the methods and tenets of the neo-liberal imaginary. Philanthropy, business and the governments are coming together in new networks and sites of policy outside of the framework of the nation



state. This book is a first step in recording, mapping and making sense of the most important aspects of these new relations and dynamics of policy.Using the approach of policy sociology and the methods of social network analysis, Stephen Ball explores the policy activities of edu-businesses, neo-liberal advocacy networks and policy entrepreneurs, and of social enterprises and new philanthropy. He also addresses the ways in which education and education policy itself are now being exported and bought and sold as profitable commodities and how entrenched problems of educational development and educational quality and access are now being addressed through market solutions. That is, by the involvement of private providers in the delivery of educational services, both independently and on behalf of the state. Ball argues that significant changes are taking place in how policy and public services get done and suggests that the sum of these changes indicates the beginning of the end of state education in its welfare form. A set of new, blurred relationships and interests within policy and within state education are outlined. This book will be of interest to practising policy analysts and theorists and will be a learning resource for policy studies students: the issues and examples are topical; the literature employed is diverse and up-to-date; and the analysis engages with cutting-edge debates in political science, sociology, social policy and social geography. U"--



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910557432203321

Autore

Moreno García María N

Titolo

Information Retrieval and Social Media Mining

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (144 p.)

Soggetti

History of engineering and technology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents diverse contributions related to some of the latest advances in the field of personalization and recommender systems, as well as social media and sentiment analysis. The work comprises several articles that address different problems in these areas by means of recent techniques such as deep learning, methods to analyze the structure and the dynamics of social networks, and modern language processing approaches for sentiment analysis, among others. The proposals included in the book are representative of some highly topical research directions and cover different application domains where they have been validated. These go from the recommendation of hotels, movies, music, documents, or pharmacy cross-selling to sentiment analysis in the field of telemedicine and opinion mining on news, also including the study of social capital on social media and dynamics aspects of the Twitter social network.