Accountability and Quality Assurance for Leadership and Governance in Dubai-Based Educational Marketplace

Autor/inn/en	Ben Jaafar, Sonia; Alzouebi, Khadeegha; Bodolica, Virginia
Titel	Accountability and Quality Assurance for Leadership and Governance in Dubai-Based Educational Marketplace
Quelle	In: International Journal of Educational Management, 36 (2022) 5, S.641-660 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Bodolica, Virginia)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0951-354X
DOI	10.1108/IJEM-11-2021-0439
Schlagwörter	Accountability; Quality Assurance; Educational Quality; Leadership; Governance; Foreign Countries; Privatization; Inspection; Elementary Secondary Education; Competition; Educational Improvement; Private Education; Private Schools; United Arab Emirates + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Verantwortung; Qualitätssicherung; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Führung; Führungsposition; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Ausland; Privatisation; Privatisierung; Prüfverfahren; Wettkampf; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Privatunterricht; Private school; Privatschule; Vereinigte Arabische Emirate
Abstract	Purpose: Over the past decades, there has been an intensifying movement to privatize education in Western nations, with equal concern about the quality of education for all. This article adds to a global understanding of school inspections as a governance mechanism to promote educational quality in an entirely open K-12 educational marketplace. Design/methodology/approach: The role of school inspections as a quality assurance device is examined from a market accountability perspective. The Emirate of Dubai is used as an illustrative example of market accountability, where the educational landscape constitutes primarily a private open market. Findings: Dubai proves that market accountability can address the needs of all families, assuring the provision of a sufficient quality standard of education, while allowing for competition to drive improvement. There are two lessons that Dubai offers a global audience that has been debating the merits of privatizing education: a fully free unregulated market does not promote an education system that provides a minimum standard of education for all; and a private education system can address stakeholder concerns and operate successfully in parallel to a public sector. Originality/value: The idiosyncratic United Arab Emirates (UAE) education sector calls for a balance between flexibility and quality assurance across semi-independent jurisdictions. Hosting a majority of non-Emirati resident families, Dubai has developed a public inspection system for a private education market for quality assurance across 17 curricula offered in 215 private schools with diverse profit models. That most Dubai school-aged children are in private schools demanded accommodating an atypical landscape for K-12 education that affords insights into how a free market can operate. The authors encourage future research that may build a more comprehensive framework for better understanding the public-private education debate. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01