Unequal Benefits: Privatization and Public Education in Canada

Sue Winton's book "Unequal Benefits" critically analyzes policies encouraging the privatization of public education in Canada, arguing that they have devastating consequences for the democratic goals of public education. She offers traditional and critical approaches to policy research and explains how to conduct a critical policy analysis to resist educational privatization and achieve the public school ideal.

Format: Hardback
Length: 208 pages
Publication date: 02 November 2022
Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Drawing on extensive research from across Canada and beyond, education policy expert Sue Winton delves critically into policies that promote the privatization of public education in Canada. These policies, encompassing school choice, fundraising, fees, and international education, urge parents and other stakeholders in the private sector to assume responsibilities for education that were previously fulfilled by governments. The consequences of these policies are devastating for the democratic goals of public education. Unequal Benefits presents both traditional and critical approaches to policy research, providing guidance on how to conduct a critical policy analysis. Winton elucidates the role of policy in supporting and challenging inequality in the pursuit of a robust democracy and the ideal of public schools. In these envisioned education spaces, policy decisions prioritize collective needs over private interests, which are made in public by democratically elected officials, and, more importantly, every child has access to high-quality education programs without incurring any cost. Written with parents, educators, policymakers, and other interested citizens in mind, Unequal Benefits sheds light on how to engage in efforts to resist educational privatization and achieve the public school ideal across Canada.

Weight: 400g
Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781487508586