Education governance, philanthropy and knowledge brokering: The case of a digital education programme by a private foundation in Portugal

Sofia Viseu, Erika Martins and Luís Miguel Carvalho

International Journal of Educational Development, 2025, vol. 114, issue C

Abstract: This article focuses how philanthropy leverages knowledge brokering to promote the digitalisation of education and expand its influence on education governance. It presents an empirical study of a digital education programme launched in Portugal in 2020 by a private foundation. Through document analysis and an interview, the findings reveal that knowledge brokering enabled the foundation to bring together actors from different social worlds to conceive, legitimise and deliver the programme in public schools. Furthermore, knowledge brokering created new policy spaces that amplified the foundation’s role in educational governance, positioning Ed-Tech as a new topology for educational delivery.

Keywords: Education governance; Network governance; Knowledge brokering; New philanthropy; Digitalization of education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2025.103262

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