{"title":"Education governance, philanthropy and knowledge brokering: The case of a digital education programme by a private foundation in Portugal","authors":"Sofia Viseu, Erika Martins, Luís Miguel Carvalho","doi":"10.1016/j.ijedudev.2025.103262","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>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.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48004,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Educational Development","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 103262"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8000,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Journal of Educational Development","FirstCategoryId":"95","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0738059325000604","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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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.
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The purpose of the International Journal of Educational Development is to foster critical debate about the role that education plays in development. IJED seeks both to develop new theoretical insights into the education-development relationship and new understandings of the extent and nature of educational change in diverse settings. It stresses the importance of understanding the interplay of local, national, regional and global contexts and dynamics in shaping education and development. Orthodox notions of development as being about growth, industrialisation or poverty reduction are increasingly questioned. There are competing accounts that stress the human dimensions of development.