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I concluded the last chapter with the claim that the culture of reform advances the “corporatization” of education, reduces education to being either a business or a product. As the invitation to an all-day conference quoted below announces, education is transformed specifically into a financial product of and from the market, something that savvy investors can profit from, all in the name of reform. The announcement reads as follows:
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Scapp, R. (2016). Getting Down To Business. In: Reclaiming Education. New Frontiers in Education, Culture and Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-38843-8_3
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