Définir la valeur des écoles: l’acquisition de pensionnats privés par une multinationale de l’éducation

Caroline Bertron

Revue française de socio-Economie, 2019, vol. n° 23, issue 2, 97-117

Abstract: What does profit-making look like when applied to the education sector? This article explores the financialization of for-profit schools and especially of international education. The financial concentration of for-profit education in secondary education, has not yet led to many studies. This article explores the socio-historical trajectories of three Swiss secondary schools recently acquired by a multinational company, in order to analyze the spatial and regional configurations of financial processes in secondary education. In the context of the acquisition, multiple actors define what a ?school? is, and what their school is, when it is seen as an exchangeable good. The article looks at how financial and entrepreneurial activities, as well as educational legitimacies, are requalified, and how the symbolic spatial capital associated with the schools? location in Switzerland is maintained.

Keywords: financialization; private schools; multinational corporations; requalification of activities; international education; Switzerland (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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