Carrying the community. Addressing the consequences of privatization and funding shortfalls for education support personnel

Cone, Lucas and Giudici, Anja 2024. Carrying the community. Addressing the consequences of privatization and funding shortfalls for education support personnel. [Project Report]. Education International. Available at: https://www.ei-ie.org/en/item/28615:carrying-the-c...

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Abstract

Education Support Personnel (ESP) are central to achieving inclusive, quality education for all – a commitment formalized in the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal 4. In recent decades, the numbers and roles of administration and clerical personnel, librarians, food and nutrition personnel, security and transport personnel, and other support roles in schools have expanded along with efforts to extend quality primary and secondary education to all. Among other things, ESP play a critical role in ensuring that students receive financial support, are fed, receive culturally responsive and individualized instruction, and get to school safely, all the while pedagogically interacting with children and their families. Their work is essential to sustaining educational communities and the students within them – especially those who have been historically excluded or marginalized. This report documents how privatization and public funding shortfalls are threatening the conditions that allow ESP to contribute to the realization of universal, inclusive, quality education. Building on an extensive literature review, as well as interviews and participatory research with ESP and union representatives located in different regions, the report documents how global trends to cut funding and outsource responsibilities in public education place ESP at increased risk of unemployment, devaluation, and material neglect.

Item Type:	Monograph (Project Report)
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General)
Publisher:	Education International
ISBN:	9789292760120
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	9 September 2024
Last Modified:	07 Oct 2024 10:03
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/171943

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